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US10944231B2	Method and device for processing a cable A method for processing a cable includes a drawing-out step and a placement step. In the drawing-out step, a loop of the cable is drawn out over a guide body arranged on a loop placement surface. The loop is drawn out to a specified length using a driven dog. In the placement step, the loop is placed onto the loop placement surface by the dog. In the process, the loop is placed over the guide body.
US10944226B2	Connector system for charging a device using a charging receptacle A connector system enables charging of a portable information handling system in a charging dock. The connector system has improved tolerance to misalignment of male and female connectors to facilitate engagement when the portable information handling system is inserted into a charging dock. An embodiment of a receptacle adapter is disposed such that there is only one orientation for power connector engagement. An embodiment of the charging dock has an angular tilt that causes a partial weight component of the portable computer to contribute to positive engagement of the external plug adapter and receptacle adapter. An embodiment of the connector system includes a power interface including conductive pads and pogo pins. The conductive pads have contact surfaces that tolerate alignment variation between the pogo pins and the conductive pads. An embodiment of the connector system is a USB Type-C power adapter connector system.
US10944224B2	Joint connector A joint connector includes a plurality of target terminals (40), a joint terminal (10) connected to the respective target terminals (40) for short-circuiting the respective target terminals (40), and a housing (60) for accommodating the respective target terminals (40). The target terminal (40) includes a coupling portion (44) located between a body portion (42) and a crimping portion (43) to couple the both and having a concave cross-section. The joint terminal (10) includes a base portion (11) and a plurality of contact pieces (12) projecting from the base portion (11) and moves to an entrance position where the respective contact pieces (12) are inserted into the coupling portions (44) of the respective target terminals (40) after the respective target terminals 40 are accommodated into the housing (60). Each contact piece (42) resiliently contacts an inner surface of the corresponding coupling portion 44 at the entrance position.
US10944211B1	Connector with quick positioning structure A connector includes a terminal group installed in a base, an inner socket fixed onto the base for passing the terminal group, and a positioning ring including a ring plate sheathed on the inner socket, and elastic plates and hooks connected to the ring plate. The elastic plates are spaced from each other and arranged circularly on the ring plate; the hooks are formed on the elastic plate and configured to be different or partially the same up to an axial distance of the horizontal plane; the outer socket includes an outer circular seat outside the inner socket and connected to an outer circular plate of the outer circular seat; the outer circular plate has notches corresponding to the hooks; the outer circular seat is sheathed on the positioning ring to protrude the hook from the notches. The connector further includes a socket structure for engaging the plug structure.
US10944209B2	Inspection and maintenance system having an electrical interface An inspection or maintenance system is provided comprising an electrical interface, wherein the inspection or maintenance system comprises an inspection or maintenance unit and an external unit, which can be coupled to the inspection or maintenance unit electrically. The inspection or maintenance unit comprises a housing and the housing has a first electrically conducting portion and at least a second electrically conducting portion. The electrically conducting portions are electrically isolated from each other, the external unit comprises a first electrical contact and at least a second electrical contact, wherein the electrically conducting portions and the electrical contacts are configured such that the first electrical contact can be brought into electrical contact with the first electrically conducting portion and the at least one second electrical contact can be brought into electrical contact with the at least one second electrically conducting portion.
US10944192B2	Electrical connector An electrical connector is used to be electrically connected to a mating component. The electrical connector includes a body having an insertion slot for the mating component to insert therein along a mating direction, and two side walls located at two opposite sides of the insertion slot and extending along an elongated direction perpendicular to the mating direction. A retainer is provided at one end of the body along the elongated direction to buckle with the mating component. Multiple terminals are provided on the two side walls, protruding into the insertion slot to mate with the mating component. A metal member is provided on the body and correspondingly covering one of the side walls. The metal member is provided with at least one through slot provided obliquely relative to the mating direction and adjacent to the retainer in the elongated direction.
US10944191B1	Offset ;lug connector on a board connection area An electric packaging including a board and a mechanical component attached to the board. The mechanical component includes a first end attached to the board, a second end opposite the first end, and a seat interposed between the first end and the second end. The mechanical component also includes an upper portion extending from the second end to the seat, the upper portion having a first width and a lower portion extending from the seat to the first end. The lower portion having a second width that is less than the first width. The electric packaging also includes a connector attached to the board. The connector includes a first surface attached to the board and a second surface located opposite the first surface. The second surface includes a plug connection area sized to receive a plug and located completely radially outside of the first width.
US10944187B2	Terminal and connector A female terminal 12 is a female terminal including a terminal body 15 including a deformable upper connection piece 18A and a deformable lower connection piece 18B, the upper and lower connection pieces 18A and 18B having contact surfaces 21A and 21B that come in contact with a core 13 of a wire 11, respectively, and extending in an extension direction, and a slide 16 configured to move along the extension direction. The slide 16 has an upper contact portion 25A and a lower contact portion 25B that press the upper connection piece 18A and the lower connection piece 18B, respectively, to the core 13 while the core 13 is disposed in contact with the contact surfaces 21A and 21B of the upper and lower connection pieces 18A and 18B along the extension direction.
US10944181B2	Antenna module and communication device An antenna module (1) includes a substrate (100) including a first flat plate portion (100a) and a second flat plate portion (100b) that have respective normals intersecting with each other and that are continuous, first patch antennas (10a to 10d) that are formed on the first flat plate portion (100a) and second patch antennas (20a to 20d) that are formed on the second flat plate portion (100b). The first patch antennas (10a to 10d) are arranged in at least a column in a column direction parallel to a boundary line (B) between the first flat plate portion (100a) and the second flat plate portion (100b). The second patch antennas (20a to 20d) are arranged in at least a column in the column direction.
US10944179B2	Devices, systems and methods for creating and demodulating orbital angular momentum in electromagnetic waves and signals Orbital angular momentum (OAM) communications systems provide an additional degree of freedom to the electromagnetic waves that travel between the transmission and receiving stations, thereby enabling a dramatic increase in data transmission rates. The present invention provides a design for a very low reflectivity flat spiral phase plate that generates OAM modes and a method of making the same. The design incorporates variable sizes of perforated unit cells and may include matched layers to provide improved impedance matching, and the flat disc shape makes the phase plate compact and easy to install. The OAM phase plate can be designed to operate at frequencies from a few 100s KHz to ultraviolet frequencies and is capable of providing one or more OAM modes at the operational frequencies, irrespective of polarization. In a preferred embodiment, the OAM phase plate is designed for operation at about 30 GHz frequency, with 20 GHz bandwidth.
US10944175B2	Waveguide fed surface integrated waveguide antenna and method for producing same A waveguide antenna and a method for producing same is disclosed. In one embodiment, The waveguide-fed surface integrated antenna array comprises an aperture coupled waveguide (WG) antenna element with inclusive slot on a first metal layer, a first ground plane as part of a surface integrated waveguide (SIW) on a first metal layer, an embedded microstrip feed on a second metal layer, a second ground plane as part of a SIW with one or more apertures formed within the ground plane on a third metal layer, and a waveguide enclosing the antenna element on the first metal layer. The SIW is formed on the first and third metal layers of the composite RF board along with one or more shorting conductors electrically shorting the first and second ground planes.
US10944167B2	Electronic device that reduces antenna interference and enhances antenna performance The present disclosure relates to an electronic device made in a small size for IoT. An electronic device according to various embodiments includes: a housing; and a substrate disposed in the housing, in which the substrate may include: an upper feed point disposed on a top of the substrate and connecting a communication circuit and an antenna for WiFi to each other; a lower feed point disposed on a bottom of the substrate and connecting the communication circuit and an antenna for cellular communication to each other; and a conductive pad disposed on the top of the substrate to overlap the lower feed point and connected with an antenna for a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and/or a Global Positioning System (GPS).
US10944163B2	Bung-type antenna and antennal structure and antennal assembly associated therewith The invention relates to an antennal structure adapted to be disposed on an earth plane comprising: a three-dimensional support substrate made of a dielectric material which is partially hollowed out and comprising a peripheral wall which extends between a proximal end and a distal end, said support substrate defining an internal volume; a first conducting pattern inscribed on the peripheral wall of the support substrate, the first conducting pattern comprising a lower end adapted to be connected to an earth plane and an upper end; a second conducting pattern contained in the volume of the substrate, the second pattern being connected electrically to the upper end of the first pattern.
US10944161B2	Film-type microstrip patch antenna The present invention relates to a film-type microstrip patch antenna. The present invention comprises: a base film; a microstrip transmission line part formed on one surface of the base film; a radiation patch part formed on the one surface of the base film so as to be electrically connected to the microstrip transmission line part; and a ground part formed on the other surface of the base film. The present invention can be implemented in a screen display area of a display device, be applied to a high-frequency band for 3G to 5G mobile communication, and prevent the moire phenomenon caused by components of an antenna, thereby improving the optical characteristics of the display device mounted with the antenna.
US10944150B2	Combined active and passive wireless communication device A wireless communication device comprises a control unit, an antenna interface, an active wireless transceiver operable together with the control unit and antenna interface, a passive wireless transceiver operable together with the antenna interface and operable by harvesting power from received radio messages. The device is further configured to deactivate the one or more active wireless transceivers and control unit to an inactive state and, subsequently, by the passive wireless transceiver, activate the control unit and an active wireless transceiver to an active state when the passive wireless transceiver receives a message from the antenna interface.
US10944143B2	Non-reciprocal circuit element and method for manufacturing the same In a non-reciprocal circuit element, a permanent magnet is connected to one main surface of a magnetic plate, and a circuit board is connected to the other main surface of the magnetic plate, with a solder bump lying between the circuit board and the other main surface. The permanent magnet can control the transmission of electrical signal from each of a plurality of signal conductors of circuit board to a corresponding one of a plurality of input/output terminals of the magnetic plate. The non-reciprocal circuit element further includes an underfill material arranged between the magnetic plate and the circuit board. The magnetic plate has a through hole formed therein, the through hole extending from one main surface to the other main surface. The through hole has an empty space in which at least a part of a conductive film arranged in the through hole is exposed.
US10944138B2	Battery pack case having efficient cooling structure Disclosed herein is a battery pack case configured to receive a battery module assembly including a plurality of battery modules, each having a plurality of battery cells or unit modules mounted therein, sequentially stacked, wherein a coolant inlet port and a coolant outlet port are located at the upper part and the lower part of the battery pack case, respectively, in a state in which the coolant inlet port and the coolant outlet port are opposite to each other such that a coolant for cooling the unit modules flows from one side of the battery modules to the opposite side of the battery modules in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the unit modules are stacked, and an inclined plate for guiding the flow of the coolant is provided between the battery pack case and the battery modules.
US10944136B2	Battery cell, method for the production thereof and battery module The invention relates to a battery cell, in particular lithium-ion battery cell, having a housing (61) in which the electrochemical components of the battery cell (4) are accommodated, wherein the housing (61) of the battery cell (4) comprises a casing (60) which is designed for guiding a temperature-control fluid flowing around the battery cell (4), which casing at least partially covers the housing (61) of the battery cell, wherein the casing (60) is formed from a main body (62) which comprises at least one filler material (63).
US10944128B2	Anode structure for solid-state lithium-based thin-film battery A solid-state lithium-based battery is provided in which the formation of lithium islands (i.e., lumps) during a charging/recharging cycle is reduced, or even eliminated. Reduction or elimination of lithium islands (i.e., lumps) can be provided by forming a lithium nucleation enhancement liner between a lithium-based solid-state electrolyte layer and a top electrode of a solid-state lithium based battery.
US10944127B2	Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery In this non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, a positive terminal and a negative terminal extend in a first direction, protrude from a laminated cell stack, and are provided so that a center line is interposed therebetween, the center line passing through a midpoint of both ends of the laminated cell stack in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and extending in the first direction when the laminated cell stack is seen in plan view, and a first terminal with higher heat dissipation efficiency among the positive terminal and the negative terminal is provided in a location closer to the center line than a location of a second terminal with lower heat dissipation efficiency among the positive terminal and the negative terminal.
US10944110B2	Secondary battery, graphene oxide, and manufacturing method thereof To provide a manufacturing method of graphene oxide that allows mass production through a relatively simple process, at low costs, and with safety and efficiency. A hydrogen peroxide solution, sulfuric acid, and flake graphite are put in a reaction container, and the mixture is stirred to obtain expansion graphite. The synthesized expansion graphite is washed not with pure water but with a saturated aqueous solution of magnesium sulfate (MgSO4) or an organic solvent, whereby a large amount of sulfuric acid is contained between graphite layers. The expansion graphite is subjected to heat treatment or microwave irradiation to form expanded graphite, and a graphite layer is peeled by ultrasonic treatment and then oxidized to form a graphene compound.
US10944103B2	Ex-situ solid electrolyte interface modification using chalcogenides for lithium metal anode Implementations described herein generally relate to metal electrodes, more specifically lithium-containing anodes, high performance electrochemical devices, such as secondary batteries, including the aforementioned lithium-containing electrodes, and methods for fabricating the same. In one implementation, an anode electrode structure is provided. The anode electrode structure comprises a current collector comprising copper. The anode electrode structure further comprises a lithium metal film formed on the current collector. The anode electrode structure further comprises a solid electrolyte interface (SEI) film stack formed on the lithium metal film. The SEI film stack comprises a chalcogenide film formed on the lithium metal film. In one implementation, the SEI film stack further comprises a lithium oxide film formed on the chalcogenide film. In one implementation, the SEI film stack further comprises a lithium carbonate film formed on the lithium oxide film.
US10944099B2	Fluoride ion conductor containing potassium, alkaline earth metal, and fluorine, and fluoride ion secondary battery including the same A fluoride ion conductor contains potassium, at least one alkaline earth metal selected from the group consisting of calcium, barium, and strontium, and fluorine. The fluoride ion conductor includes a phase of a compound containing potassium, at least one alkaline earth metal, and fluorine.
US10944094B2	Passivating agents for electrochemical cells Articles and methods involving electrochemical cells and/or electrochemical cell preproducts comprising passivating agents are generally provided. In certain embodiments, an electrochemical cell includes first and second passivating agents. In some embodiments, an electrochemical cell may include a first electrode comprising a first surface, a second electrode (e.g., a counter electrode with respect to the first electrode) comprising a second surface, a first passivating agent configured and arranged to passivate the first surface, and a second passivating agent configured and arranged to passivate the second surface.
US10944084B2	Secondary battery and method for supplementing electrolyte of secondary battery The present invention relates to a secondary battery and a method for supplementing an electrolyte of the secondary battery. The secondary battery according to the present invention comprises a battery case comprising an accommodation part accommodating an electrode and an electrolyte therein and a sealing member for additionally injecting the electrolyte, which is disposed on a portion of the battery case to additionally inject the electrolyte into the accommodation part of the battery case and seals an injection portion.
US10944078B2	Organic light emitting diode and method of manufacturing the same A lighting device is provided. The lighting device may include an organic light emitting diode arranged on one surface of a first substrate, the organic light emitting diode including a first electrode, an organic light emitting layer and a second electrode, and the first electrode is made of a transparent conductive material having a resistance value of 2,800-5,500Ω in each pixel, and has light scattering particles dispersed therein. Thus, even when a resistor of the organic light emitting layer is removed from a pixel due to a contact between the first electrode and the second electrode, it is possible to prevent an over current from being applied to the corresponding pixel through a resistor of the first electrode.
US10944077B2	Process for manufacturing a pixel of an OLED micro-display A process includes the following successive steps: a) providing a substrate including a structured first electrode; b) forming in succession first and second bilayer stacks on the structured first electrode, each bilayer stack including in succession first and second layers made of first and second materials that are transparent conductive oxides able to be selectively etched; c) etching the second bilayer stack in a zone intended to accommodate a blue subpixel and in a zone intended to accommodate a green subpixel; d) etching the first bilayer stack in the zone intended to accommodate the blue subpixel; e) forming a stack of organic light-emitting layers, the stack being configured to emit white light; f) forming a second electrode on the stack of organic light-emitting layers so as to obtain an optical resonator with the first electrode.
US10944068B2	Organic light emitting display apparatus An organic light emitting display apparatus including a substrate including a plurality of pixel areas; a pixel electrode on the substrate; an opposite electrode on the pixel electrode, the opposite electrode transmitting light; an organic light emitting layer between the pixel electrode and the opposite electrode, the organic light emitting layer emitting a first light toward the opposite electrode; a light emitting layer on the opposite electrode, the light emitting layer absorbing a portion of the first light and emitting a second light; and a sealing layer on the light emitting layer, the sealing layer sealing the pixel electrode, the opposite electrode, the organic light emitting layer, and the light emitting layer.
US10944066B2	Photoresistor with improved sensitivity A photoresistor comprises two electrodes connected by a photosensitive layer of the photoresistor, and at least one additional layer which is in contact with the photosensitive layer in order to influence the behavior of the photoresistor regarding carrier collection between the two electrodes, in order to improve the sensitivity of the photoresistor.
US10944063B2	Organometallic compound and organic light-emitting device including the same An organometallic compound represented by Formula 1: wherein, in Formula 1, groups and variables are the same as described in the specification.
US10944056B2	Materials for organic electroluminescent devices The present invention relates to spirobifluorene compounds of the formula (1) which are suitable for use in electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, and to electronic devices which comprise these compounds.
US10944055B2	Compound and organic photoelectric device, image sensor and electronic device including the same A compound of Chemical Formula 1, and an organic photoelectric device, an image sensor, and an electronic device including the same are disclosed: In Chemical Formula 1, each substituent is the same as described in the detailed description.
US10944043B2	Magnetoresistance effect element and method for manufacturing the same This magnetoresistance effect element includes a first ferromagnetic layer, a second ferromagnetic layer, and a tunnel barrier layer which is interposed between the first and second ferromagnetic layers, wherein the tunnel barrier layer has a spinel structure represented by a compositional formula X1-αYαOβ, and the tunnel barrier layer contains one or more additional elements selected from the group consisting of He, Ne, Ar, Kr, Xe, P, C, B, and Si, and in the compositional formula, X represents one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Mg, Zn, Cd, Ag, Pt, and Pb, Y represents one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Al, Ga, and In, a range of α is 0<α≤1, and a range of β is 0.35≤β≤1.7.
US10944041B1	Hybrid ultrasonic transducer and method of forming the same A hybrid ultrasonic transducer and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes the forming of a first substrate and a second substrate. The forming of the first substrate includes: depositing a membrane stack over a first dielectric layer; forming a third electrode over the first dielectric layer; and depositing a second dielectric layer over the membrane stack and the third electrode. The forming of the second substrate includes: forming a redistribution layer (RDL) having a fourth electrode; and etching a first cavity on a surface of the RDL adjacent to the fourth electrode. The method further includes: forming a second cavity in one of the first substrate and the second substrate; and bonding the first substrate to the second substrate.
US10944040B2	Piezoelectric thin film-stacked body, piezoelectric thin film substrate, piezoelectric thin film device, piezoelectric actuator, piezoelectric sensor, head assembly, head stack assembly, hard disk drive, printer head, and ink-jet printer device A piezoelectric thin film-stacked body is provided. A piezoelectric thin film-stacked body has a first electrode layer, a first intermediate layer stacked on the first electrode layer, a second intermediate layer stacked on the first intermediate layer, and a piezoelectric thin film stacked on the second intermediate layer, the first intermediate layer includes K, Na, and Nb, the second intermediate layer is a layer causing stress in a compression direction in the piezoelectric thin film, and the piezoelectric thin film includes (K,Na)NbO3.
US10944038B2	Photodetector with superconductor nanowire transistor based on interlayer heat transfer A photon source includes a photo-pair generator and a detection device. The photo-pair generator is configured to generate a photon-pair in receiving an input signal. A first photon of the photon-pair is output from the photon source via a first optical path. The detection device is configured to receive a second photon of the photon-pair. The detection device includes a transistor that has a semiconducting component that is a source and a drain of the transistor, and a superconducting component that is adjacent to the semiconducting component and is a gate of the transistor. The transistor is configured to transition from an off state to an on state in response a photon being incident upon the detection device.
US10944029B2	Light emitting device having a dam surrounding a light emitting region A light emitting device includes: a base substrate; a plurality of unit regions provided on the base substrate; a barrier disposed at a boundary of the unit regions to surround each of the unit regions; a dam disposed in each of the unit regions to be spaced apart from the barrier; a first electrode provided in each of unit light emitting regions surrounded by the dam; a second electrode disposed in each of the unit light emitting regions, the second electrode of which at least one region is provided opposite to the first electrode; and one or more LEDs provided in each of the unit light emitting regions, the one or more LEDs being electrically connected between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US10944026B2	Semiconductor light emitting device and method of manufacturing semiconductor light emitting device A semiconductor light emitting device includes: an n-type clad layer made of an n-type aluminum gallium nitride (AlGaN)-based semiconductor material containing silicon (Si); an intermediate layer provided on the n-type clad layer and containing Si; an active layer of an AlGaN-based semiconductor material provided on the intermediate layer; and a p-type semiconductor layer provided on the active layer. A distribution of an Si concentration in a direction in which the n-type clad layer, the intermediate layer, and the active layer are stacked has a local peak at least at a position of the intermediate layer.
US10944025B2	Light-emitting diode with multiple quantum wells and asymmetric p-n junction A light-emitting diode including: a first n-doped semiconductor layer configured to form a cathode, and a second p-doped semiconductor layer configured to form an anode, and together forming a p-n junction of the diode; an active zone located between the first layer and the second layer, including at least two emissive layers including a semiconductor capable of forming quantum wells, and a plurality of semiconductor barrier layers such that each emissive layer is located between two barrier layers; an n-doped semiconductor buffer layer located between the first layer and the active zone, the n-dope semiconductor of the buffer layer having a band gap energy less than or equal to about 97% of the band gap energy of the p-doped semiconductor of the second layer.
US10944024B1	Method for manufacturing micro light-emitting diode chips A method for manufacturing micro light-emitting diode chips includes the steps of: providing a to-be-divided light-emitting component, which includes a metal substrate and a plurality of micro light-emitting diode dies disposed on the metal substrate to permit the metal substrate to define a to-be-etched region among the micro light-emitting diode dies; and etching the metal substrate to remove the to-be-etched region so as to divide the light-emitting component into a plurality of the micro light-emitting diode chips.
US10944022B2	Solar cell with delta doping layer A solar cell including a base region, a back surface field layer and a delta doping layer positioned between the base region and the back surface field layer.
US10944016B2	Optical detection unit, optical detection device, and method for manufacturing optical detection unit An optical detection unit includes a first wiring substrate that has a first main surface, a plurality of optical detection chips that each have a light receiving surface and a rear surface on a side opposite to the light receiving surface and are two-dimensionally arranged on the first main surface, a first bump electrode that electrically connects the optical detection chip to the first wiring substrate, a light transmitting portion that is provided on the light receiving surface, and a light shielding portion that has light reflection properties or light absorption properties. The optical detection chip includes a Geiger-mode APD and is mounted on the first wiring substrate by the first bump electrode in a state in which the rear surface faces the first main surface.
US10944013B2	Self-aligned source/drain contact for vertical field effect transistor A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a fin on a semiconductor substrate. In the method, a bottom source/drain region is formed between the fin and the semiconductor substrate, and a top source/drain region is formed on the fin. The method further includes forming a cap layer covering part of a top surface of the top source/drain region. A portion of the top source/drain region and an underlying portion of the fin not covered by the cap layer are removed. The removal exposes a portion of the bottom source/drain region. A dielectric spacer is formed on a side of the fin adjacent the exposed portion of the bottom source/drain region, and extends onto a side of the top source/drain region. A bottom source/drain contact is formed on the exposed portion of the bottom source/drain region and on the dielectric spacer.
US10944012B2	Area-efficient inverter using stacked vertical transistors An inverter that includes an n-type field effect transistor (nFET) and a p-type field effect transistor (pFET) vertically stacked one atop the other and containing a buried metal semiconductor alloy strap that connects a drain region of the nFET to a drain region of the pFET is provided. Also, provided is a cross-coupled inverter pair with nFETs and pFETs stacked vertically.
US10944000B2	Contacts for semiconductor devices In an example embodiment, a method comprises: forming first spacers adjacent to a memory cell formed on a substrate, each of the first spacers being formed in direct contact with the substrate, where forming the memory cell includes forming a control gate electrode and a tunnel oxide layer over the substrate and subsequently etching completely at least the control gate electrode and the tunnel oxide layer that are disposed beyond the memory cell; forming an interlayer dielectric layer over the memory cell and the first spacers; forming a contact hole through the interlayer dielectric layer to at least reach the substrate; subsequent to forming the contact hole, forming a second spacer adjacent to one of the first spacers, where a height of the second spacer is greater than a height of the first spacers, the second spacer substantially contacting the substrate and the interlayer dielectric layer; and forming a contact in the contact hole.
US10943990B2	Gate contact over active enabled by alternative spacer scheme and claw-shaped cap Gate contact over active layout designs are provided. In one aspect, a method for forming a gate contact over active device includes: forming a device including metal gates over an active area of a wafer, and source/drains on opposite sides of the metal gates offset by gate spacers; recessing the metal gates/gate spacers; forming etch-selective spacers on top of the recessed gate spacers; forming gate caps on top of the recessed metal gates; forming source/drain contacts on the source/drains; forming source/drain caps on top of the source/drain contacts, wherein the etch-selective spacers provide etch selectivity to the gate caps and source/drain caps; and forming a metal gate contact that extends through one of the gate caps, wherein the etch-selective spacers prevent gate-to-source drain shorting by the metal gate contact. Alternate etch-selective configurations are also provided including a claw-shaped source/drain cap design. A gate contact over active device is also provided.
US10943988B2	Thermally stable salicide formation for salicide first contacts A semiconductor device includes epitaxially grown source/drain (S/D) regions each having a cross-sectional quadrilateral shape formed on a semiconductor fin on opposite sides of a transversely disposed gate structure. The S/D regions include top (111) facets on top halves of the cross-sectional quadrilateral shape. The device further includes a silicide formed on the top (111) facets.
US10943983B2	Integrated circuits having protruding interconnect conductors Examples of an integrated circuit with an interconnect structure and a method for forming the integrated circuit are provided herein. In some examples, the method includes receiving a workpiece that includes an inter-level dielectric layer. A first contact that includes a fill material is formed that extends through the inter-level dielectric layer. The inter-level dielectric layer is recessed such that the fill material extends above a top surface of the inter-level dielectric layer. An etch-stop layer is formed on the inter-level dielectric layer such that the fill material of the first contact extends into the etch-stop layer. A second contact is formed extending through the etch-stop layer to couple to the first contact. In some such examples, the second contact physically contacts a top surface and a side surface of the first contact.
US10943981B2	Semiconductor device In a first aspect of a present inventive subject matter, a semiconductor device includes an n-type semiconductor layer, an i-type semiconductor layer and a p-type semiconductor layer. The i-type semiconductor layer includes an oxide semiconductor as a major component. The oxide semiconductor that is included as the major component of the i-type semiconductor layer includes at least one metal selected from among aluminum, indium, and gallium.
US10943968B2	Organic light-emitting display device An organic light-emitting display device is provided. The organic light-emitting display device comprises a plurality of data lines, first and second sensing lines disposed on a same layer as the data lines, an insulating layer disposed on the data lines and the first and second sensing lines, and a power line disposed on the insulating layer. An area of overlap between the first sensing line and the power line is the same as an area of overlap between the second sensing line and the power line.
US10943965B2	Pixel and organic light emitting display device including the same Provided is pixel including a first transistor including a first drain region electrically connected to a light emitting diode, a first gate electrode, a first channel region overlapping the first gate electrode, and a first source region, a first sub-transistor including a first sub-gate electrode, a first sub-channel region overlapping the first sub-gate electrode, a first sub-drain region connected to the first gate electrode, and a first sub-source region, a second sub-transistor including a second sub-gate electrode, a second sub-channel region overlapping the second sub-gate electrode, a second sub-drain region connected to the first sub-source region, and a second sub-source region, and a shielding pattern overlapping the first sub-source region and the second sub-drain region and not overlapping the first sub-channel region, wherein a width of the first sub-channel region is greater than a width of the second sub-channel region.
US10943961B2	Display device having a reinforcing layer A display device includes a substrate having a first side and a second side opposite to the first side. A plurality of pixels is disposed on the substrate. A flexible circuit board is connected to the first side of the substrate. A driving integrated circuit is disposed on a lower portion of the flexible circuit board. A coating layer is disposed on the lower portion of the flexible circuit board. The coating layer is spaced apart from the first side of the substrate and at least partially surrounds the driving integrated circuit. A reinforcing layer is disposed between the first side of the substrate and the coating layer on the lower portion of the flexible circuit board. The reinforcing layer covers a side of the coating layer that faces the first side of the substrate.
US10943954B2	Panel, display device, and vehicle-mounted display device Disclosed are a panel capable of performing transparent display, a display device and a vehicle-mounted display device. A transmission part includes an organic light-emitting diode so as to perform light emission as well as display, thereby increasing an emission area, reducing the driving voltage required for emission driving, and consequently increasing the lifespan of the display device.
US10943952B2	Threshold switch for memory The switching device includes three terminals including an inner surface, an oxide layer on the inner surface of the third terminal, and a chalcogenide pillar extending through the oxide layer and the third terminal, the pillar being in electrical communication with the first terminal and the second terminal, wherein the voltage difference between the first terminal and the second terminal changes the channel from a first state to a second state when a threshold voltage between the first terminal and the second terminal is exceeded, the threshold voltage being dependent on temperature. The third terminal is resistive and receives a control signal to apply heat to the pillar and modulate the threshold voltage. The switching device can be used to select the memory stack through the bitline and provide a nearly limitless current based on the threshold switching conduction providing avalanche current conduction through the switching device.
US10943941B2	Pixel structure, image sensor, image capturing apparatus, and electronic device To reduce the influence of generation of after-pulses when a pixel including a SPAD is used. In a SPAD pixel, a PN junction part of a P+ type semiconductor layer and an N+ type semiconductor layer is formed, a P type semiconductor layer having a concentration higher than the concentration of a silicon substrate is formed in a region deeper than the PN junction part and close to a light absorption layer. With no quenching operation generating no after-pulse, electrons generated in the light absorption layer are guided to the PN junction part and subjected to avalanche amplification. When the quenching operation is performed after avalanche amplification, the electrons are guided to the N+ type semiconductor layer by a potential barrier to prevent avalanche amplification. The present disclosure is applicable to an image sensor including a SPAD.
US10943933B2	Imaging device and imaging unit An imaging device having a first surface on which light is incident and a second surface on an opposite side of the first surface, includes a photoelectric conversion section including semiconductors having a same conductivity type, in which an impurity concentration on the second surface side is higher than an impurity concentration on the first surface side.
US10943920B2	Methods of fabricating integrated structures Some embodiments include a memory array which has a stack of alternating first and second levels. Channel material pillars extend through the stack, and vertically-stacked memory cell strings are along the channel material pillars. A common source is under the stack and electrically coupled to the channel material pillars. The common source has conductive protective material over and directly against metal silicide, with the conductive protective material being a composition other than metal silicide. Some embodiments include methods of fabricating integrated structures.
US10943916B2	Method for manufacturing three-dimensional memory structure A method for manufacturing a three-dimensional (3D) memory structure and a 3D memory structure are disclosed. A recess is formed on a substrate, a 3D memory component is formed with a bottom in the recess, and then, a peripheral circuit is formed on the substrate outside the recess.
US10943913B2	Strap-cell architecture for embedded memory Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards an integrated memory chip comprising a memory array with a strap-cell architecture that reduces the number of distinct strap-cell types and that reduces strap-line density. In some embodiments, the memory array is limited to three distinct types of strap cells: a source line/erase gate (SLEG) strap cell; a control gate/word line (CGWL) strap cell; and a word-line strap cell. The small number of distinct strap-cell types simplifies design of the memory array and further simplifies design of a corresponding interconnect structure. Further, in some embodiments, the three distinct strap-cell types electrically couple word lines, erase gates, and control gates to corresponding strap lines in different metallization layers of an interconnect structure. By spreading the strap lines amongst different metallization layers, strap-line density is reduced.
US10943896B2	Power MOS device having an integrated current sensor and manufacturing process thereof Power MOS device, in which a power MOS transistor has a drain terminal that is coupled to a power supply node, a gate terminal that is coupled to a drive node and a source terminal that is coupled to a load node. A detection MOS transistor has a drain terminal that is coupled to a detection node, a gate terminal that is coupled to the drive node and a source terminal that is coupled to the load node. A detection resistor has a first terminal coupled to the power supply node and a second terminal coupled to the detection node.
US10943893B2	Stretchable display device The present disclosure provides a stretchable display device, comprising: a lower substrate made of a stretchable insulating material and having an active area and a non-active area adjacent to the active area; a plurality of individual substrates spaced apart from each other and disposed in the active area of the lower substrate; pixels disposed on the plurality of individual substrates respectively; and a plurality of connecting lines disposed between the plurality of individual substrates on the lower substrate, and electrically connecting corresponding pads disposed within the plurality of individual substrates respectively. The modulus of the plurality of individual substrates is higher than the lower substrate.
US10943892B2	Light-emitting semiconductor chip, light-emitting component and method for producing a light-emitting component A light-emitting semiconductor chip, a light-emitting component and a method for producing a light-emitting component are disclosed. In an embodiment a light-emitting semiconductor chip includes a light-transmissive substrate having a top surface, a bottom surface opposite the top surface, a first side and a second side surface arranged opposite the first side surface, a semiconductor body arranged on the top surface of the substrate and a contacting including a first current distribution structure and a second current distribution structure, wherein the first current distribution structure and the second current distribution structure are freely accessible from a side of the semiconductor body facing away from the substrate, and wherein the semiconductor chip, on the side of the semiconductor body facing away from the substrate and on the bottom surface of the substrate, is free of any connection point configured to electrically contact the first and second current distribution structures.
US10943886B2	Methods of forming semiconductor packages with back side metal Implementations of a method of forming semiconductor packages may include: providing a wafer having a plurality of devices, etching one or more trenches on a first side of the wafer between each of the plurality of devices, applying a molding compound to the first side of the wafer to fill the one or more trenches; grinding a second side of the wafer to a desired thickness, and exposing the molding compound included in the one or more trenches. The method may include etching the second side of the wafer to expose a height of the molding compound forming one or more steps extending from the wafer, applying a back metallization to a second side of the wafer, and singulating the wafer at the one or more steps to form a plurality of semiconductor packages. The one or more steps may extend from a base of the back metallization.
US10943883B1	Planar wafer level fan-out of multi-chip modules having different size chips Package structures and methods are provided for constructing multi-chip package structures using semiconductor wafer-level-fan-out techniques in conjunction with back-end-of-line fabrication methods to integrate different size chips (e.g., different thicknesses) into a planar package structure. The packaging techniques take into account intra-chip thickness variations and inter-chip thickness differences, and utilize standard back-end-of-line fabrication methods and materials to account for such thickness variations and differences. In addition, the back-end-of-line techniques allow for the formation of multiple layers of wiring and inter-layer vias which provide high density chip-to-chip interconnect wiring for high-bandwidth I/O communication between the package chips, as well as redistribution layers to route power/ground connections between active-side connections of the semiconductor chips to an area array of solder bump interconnects on a bottom side of the multi-chip package structure.
US10943878B2	Semiconductor package A semiconductor package includes a frame having a recess on which a stopper layer is disposed, a semiconductor chip including a body having a first surface on which a connection pad is disposed and a second surface opposing the first surface, and a through-via penetrating through at least a portion of a region between the first surface and the second surface, the second surface facing the stopper layer, an encapsulant covering at least a portion of each of the frame and the semiconductor chip and filling at least a portion of the recess, a first connection structure disposed on a lower side of the frame and on the first surface of the semiconductor chip and including a first redistribution layer, and a second connection structure disposed on an upper side of the frame and on the second surface of the semiconductor chip and including a second redistribution layer.
US10943877B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device may include at least one semiconductor chip, an encapsulant encapsulating the at least one semiconductor chip, a first power terminal connected to the at least one semiconductor chip within the encapsulant, and a second power terminal electrically connected to the first power terminal via the at least one semiconductor chip within the encapsulant. The first power terminal and the second power terminal each may have a plate shape and may be at least partly opposed to each other within the encapsulant
US10943870B2	Microphone package structure A microphone package structure includes a substrate, a metal housing, a MEMS microphone component and at least one integrated circuit component. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface that are opposite to each other. The metal housing is located on the first surface such that the substrate and the metal housing collectively define a hollow chamber. The MEMS microphone component is located on the metal housing and within the hollow chamber. The at least one integrated circuit component is located within a region of the second surface on which the metal housing has a vertical projection.
US10943864B2	Programmable redistribution die A device and method of utilizing a programmable redistribution die to redistribute the outputs of semiconductor dies. Integrated circuit packages using a programmable redistribution die are shown. Methods of creating a programmable redistribution die are shown.
US10943860B2	Semiconductor device with flexible circuit for enabling non-destructive attaching and detaching of device to system board A semiconductor device assembly that includes a flexible member having a first portion connected to a substrate and a connector attached to a second portion of the flexible member. The connector is electrically connected to the substrate via a conducting layer within the flexible member. The substrate may be a semiconductor device, such as a chip. The connector may be configured to connect the semiconductor device to another semiconductor device assembly or a system board, such as a printed circuit board. A material may encapsulate at least a portion of the substrate of the semiconductor assembly. The semiconductor device assembly may be formed by selectively connecting the flexible member to a first substrate. A second substrate and connector may then be connected to the flexible member. A release layer may be used to release the assembly of the second substrate, flexible member, and connector from the first substrate.
US10943846B2	Chip package structure with heat conductive component and manufacturing thereof A chip package structure includes a circuit structure, a redistribution structure, a heat conductive component, a chip, and a heat sink. The circuit structure includes a first circuit layer. The redistribution structure is disposed on the circuit structure and includes a second circuit layer, wherein the redistribution structure has an opening. The heat conductive component is disposed on the circuit structure and covered by the redistribution structure. The heat conductive component has a horizontal portion and a vertical portion. The horizontal portion extends toward the opening until it exceeds the opening. The vertical portion extends upward beyond the top surface of the redistribution structure from a part of the horizontal portion. The chip is disposed in the opening, and the bottom of the chip contacts the heat conductive component. The heat sink is disposed over the redistribution structure and the chip.
US10943844B2	Semiconductor device including multiple chips A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor chip, a second semiconductor chip thicker than the first semiconductor chip, a plurality of bumps provided between the first and second semiconductor chips and electrically connecting the first and second semiconductor chips, an adhesive resin provided between the first and second semiconductor chips and bonding the first and second semiconductor chips, and a sealing resin encapsulating the first and second semiconductor chips. At least one of the first and second semiconductor chips has an organic protective film disposed thereon.
US10943843B2	Semiconductor package structure A semiconductor package structure includes a conductive trace layer, a semiconductor die over the conductive trace layer, a structure enhancement layer surrounding the semiconductor die, and an encapsulant covering the semiconductor die and the structure enhancement layer. The structure enhancement layer coincides with a mass center plane of the semiconductor package structure. The mass center plane is parallel to a top surface of the semiconductor die. A method for manufacturing the semiconductor package structure is also provided.
US10943840B2	Display device including an adhesive layer A display device includes a display panel having a display area and a non-display area. A window is disposed on the display panel. A bezel portion is disposed on the window. The bezel portion at least partially overlaps the non-display area. An adhesive layer is disposed between the display panel and the window. An interlayer is disposed between the bezel portion and the adhesive layer. The interlayer has at least one ultrasound transmitting area overlapping the bezel portion.
US10943835B2	Fabrication of silicon germanium channel and silicon/silicon germanium dual channel field-effect transistors A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a plurality of fins on a substrate, wherein each fin of the plurality of fins includes silicon germanium. A layer of silicon germanium oxide is deposited on the plurality of fins, and a first thermal annealing process is performed to convert outer regions of the plurality of fins into a plurality of silicon portions. Each silicon portion of the plurality of silicon portions is formed on a silicon germanium core portion. The method further includes forming a plurality of source/drain regions on the substrate, and depositing a layer of germanium oxide on the plurality of source/drain regions. A second thermal annealing process is performed to convert outer regions of the plurality of source/drain regions into a plurality of germanium condensed portions.
US10943832B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a fin structure having a bottom portion, an intermediate portion disposed over the bottom portion and an upper portion disposed over the intermediate portion is formed. The intermediate portion is removed at a source/drain region of the fin structure, thereby forming a space between the bottom portion and the upper portion. An insulating layer is formed in the space. A source/drain contact layer is formed over the upper portion. The source/drain contact layer is separated by the insulating layer from the bottom portion of the fin structure.
US10943830B2	Self-aligned structure for semiconductor devices The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method, and more particularly to a semiconductor device having self-aligned isolation structures. The present disclosure provides self-aligned isolation fins that can be formed by depositing dielectric material in openings formed in a spacing layer or by replacing portions of fins with dielectric material. The self-aligned isolation fins can be separated from each other by a critical dimension of the utilized photolithography process. The separation between self-aligned isolation fins or between the self-aligned isolation fins and active fins can be approximately equal to or larger than the separations of the active fins.
US10943818B2	Semiconductor device and method In an embodiment, a method includes: forming a differential contact etch stop layer (CESL) having a first portion over a source/drain region and a second portion along a gate stack, the source/drain region being in a substrate, the gate stack being over the substrate proximate the source/drain region, a first thickness of the first portion being greater than a second thickness of the second portion; depositing a first interlayer dielectric (ILD) over the differential CESL; forming a source/drain contact opening in the first ILD; forming a contact spacer along sidewalls of the source/drain contact opening; after forming the contact spacer, extending the source/drain contact opening through the differential CESL; and forming a first source/drain contact in the extended source/drain contact opening, the first source/drain contact physically and electrically coupling the source/drain region, the contact spacer physically separating the first source/drain contact from the first ILD.
US10943817B2	Etch-stop layer topography for advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication Embodiments of the disclosure are in the field of advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication and, in particular, 10 nanometer node and smaller integrated circuit structure fabrication and the resulting structures. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a plurality of conductive interconnect lines in and spaced apart by an inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer above a substrate. Individual ones of the plurality of conductive interconnect lines have an upper surface below an upper surface of the ILD layer. An etch-stop layer is on and conformal with the ILD layer and the plurality of conductive interconnect lines, the etch-stop layer having a non-planar upper surface with an uppermost portion of the non-planar upper surface over the ILD layer and a lowermost portion of the non-planar upper surface over the plurality of conductive interconnect lines.
US10943816B2	Mask removal for tight-pitched nanostructures A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a hardmask layer on a substrate, and patterning the hardmask layer into a plurality of hardmask portions. The method also includes forming a liner layer on the plurality of hardmask portions, and removing a portion of the liner layer from at least one hardmask portion of the plurality of hardmask portions. The removing exposes one or more surfaces of the at least one hardmask portion. In the method, the at least one hardmask portion and a remaining portion of the liner layer are removed. A pattern of remaining ones of the plurality of hardmask portions are transferred to the substrate to form one of a plurality of patterned substrate portions and a plurality of openings in the substrate.
US10943815B2	Structure for radiofrequency applications A substrate for microelectronic radiofrequency devices includes a carrier substrate made of a first semiconductor material having a resistivity higher than 500 ohms-cm; a plurality of trenches in the carrier substrate, which trenches are filled with a second material, and defining on a first side of the carrier substrate a plurality of first zones made of a first material and at least one second zone made of a second material. The second material has a resistivity higher than 10 kohms-cm, and the first zones have a maximum dimension smaller than 10 microns and are insulated from one another by the second zone.
US10943810B2	Device and method for bonding A device for bonding of a second substrate onto a first substrate, comprising a receiving apparatus for receiving the first substrate which has been coated with a bond layer and the second substrate which is held on the bond layer, and an action apparatus for applying a bond force to the second substrate on one action side of the second substrate, which side faces away from the bond layer proceeding from an initial zone A, which lies within an edge zone R of the action side as far as action on the entire action side. Furthermore, this invention relates to a corresponding method.
US10943802B2	Photoresist bottle container The present disclosure describes a container for placing an object therein. The container includes a container body and a lid over the container body, a collision-preventing portion attached to one or more of the container body and the lid and configured to buffer an impact force, a pairing recognition mechanism configured to detect an object placed in the container body, and a liquid-detecting sensor configured to detect a leakage from the object.
US10943798B2	Fan-out structure and method of fabricating the same A semiconductor device includes a first die extending through a molding compound layer, a first dummy die having a bottom embedded in the molding compound layer, wherein a height of the first die is greater than a height of the first dummy die, and an interconnect structure over the molding compound layer, wherein a first metal feature of the interconnect structure is electrically connected to the first die and a second metal feature of the interconnect structure is over the first dummy die and extends over a sidewall of the first dummy die.
US10943785B2	Laser irradiation apparatus and method for manufacturing semiconductor device A laser irradiation apparatus (1) according to an embodiment includes an optical-system module (20) configured to apply laser light (L1) to an object to be irradiated, a shield plate (51) in which a slit (54) is formed, through which the laser light (L1) passes, and a reflected-light receiving component (61) disposed between the optical-system module (20) and the shield plate (51), in which the reflected-light receiving component (61) is able to receive, out of the laser light (L1), reflected light (R1) reflected by the shield plate (51).
US10943775B2	Collection probe and methods for the use thereof Method and devices are provided for assessing tissue samples from a plurality of tissue sites in a subject using molecular analysis. In certain aspects, devices of the embodiments allow for the collection of liquid tissue samples and delivery of the samples for mass spectrometry analysis.
US10943773B2	Ruthenium sputtering target and ruthenium alloy sputtering target A ruthenium sputtering target, wherein a Si content is 10 to 100 wtppm, a total content of unavoidable impurities excluding gas components is 50 wtppm or less, and a remainder is Ru. By suppressing the crystal growth of ruthenium or a ruthenium alloy and reducing the generation of coarse crystal grains, arcing that occurs during sputtering is minimized, particle generation is reduced, and yield is improved.
US10943770B2	Detection of damage in matching networks Systems and methods for operating a match network are disclosed. A method includes obtaining at least one measurement-based-attribute at the first side of a match network and at least one measurement-based-attribute at a second side of the match network. A present reactance setting of the match network is obtained and a model of the match network is accessed that associates the at least one measurement-based-attribute at the first side of the match network with at least one expected-attribute at the second side of the match network based upon the present reactance setting of the match network. The at least one measurement-based-attribute at the second side of the match network is contrasted with the at least one expected-output-attribute to assess whether the match network is at least one of damaged or operating outside of specifications.
US10943769B2	Gas distributor and flow verifier Apparatus and methods for distributing and mixing gas are provided. In one example, a gas distributor comprises a body, a gas inlet for admitting gas to the body, an orbital array of gas outlets for distributing the gas to an external component, and a central gas distribution point disposed within the body at a center of the orbital array of gas outlets and in fluid communication with the orbital array of gas outlets.
US10943766B2	Power feed member and substrate processing apparatus A power feed member having high heat insulation and capable of transmitting a power at a low loss is provided. The power feed member configured to supply a power includes a first conductive member; a second conductive member; and a connecting member configured to electrically connect the first conductive member and the second conductive member. At least a part of the connecting member is formed of a porous metal or multiple bulk metals.
US10943757B2	Gas discharge tube Provided is a gas discharge tube, including at least two electrodes and an insulating tube body, which is connected in a sealing manner with the electrodes to form a discharge inner cavity. A low-temperature sealing adhesive for sealing the discharge inner cavity is arranged in the gas discharge tube. The low-temperature sealing adhesive is melted at a specific low temperature to cause gas leakage in the discharge inner cavity.
US10943756B2	Radiation window According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method comprising obtaining a first silicon wafer comprising a mask on a first side, attaching a second silicon wafer on the first side of the first silicon wafer, and etching one of the wafers to partially expose a window layer deposited on the opposite silicon wafer and to leave a structure defined by the mask supporting the window layer.
US10943751B2	Electromagnetic relay The invention relates to an electromagnetic relay (1), more particularly a safety relay (1). This has a main body (10) and a coil system (20, 120) located thereon, the coil system (20, 120) having a coil (24, 124) and a yoke (25, 125) which extends through the coil (24, 124) along a winding axis (WA) of the coil (24, 124). An armature (30, 130) for the relay (1) is located next to the coil (24, 124) and mounted such that it can pivot about an armature bearing axis (AA, AA′) and has pole shoes (33a, 33b, 33c, 33d, 133a, 133b) for magnetically coupling with the yoke (25, 125) of the coil system (20, 120). The relay (1) also comprises a contact system (50) having at least two contact springs (51, 53), wherein each spring movement plane (FB) of the contact springs (51, 53) extends across the winding axis (WA) of the coil (24, 124), preferably at a substantially right angle. At least two actuators (36, 37, 41, 42) are located on the armature (30, 130), which actuators (36, 37, 41,42) are allocated to the contact springs (51, 53) in order to actuate same and which actuators (36, 37, 41, 42) extend radially outwards on the armature (30, 130) with respect to the armature bearing axis (AA, AA′) in a longitudinal direction (AL) of the armature (30, 130), wherein the radially outermost ends of the two actuators (36, 37, 41, 42) are farther away from the armature bearing axis (AA, AA′) than the pole shoes (33a, 33b, 33c, 33d, 133a, 133b) of the armature (30,130).
US10943742B2	Conductive polymer dispersion for improved reliability A capacitor, and process for forming a capacitor, is described wherein the capacitor comprises a conductive polymer layer. The conductive polymer comprises first particles comprising conductive polymer and polyanion and second particles comprising the conductive polymer and said polyanion wherein the first particles have an average particle diameter of at least 1 micron to no more than 10 microns and the second particles have an average particle diameter of at least 1 nm to no more than 600 nm.
US10943738B2	Thin film capacitor, and method of producing thin film capacitor A thin film capacitor comprises a first electrode, a second electrode, and a dielectric substance disposed between the first electrode 10 and the second electrode. The second electrode has a first metallic layer, an intermediate layer, and a second metallic layer in sequence in this order from the side of the dielectric substance. The first metallic layer contains a metal element M1 as a main component, and the second metallic layer contains a metal element M2 different from the metal element M1 as a main component. The intermediate layer has one or more laminate structures each having a second metal sublayer containing the metal element M2 as a main component and a first metal sublayer containing the metal element M1 as a main component in sequence from the side of the first metallic layer toward the side of the second metallic layer.
US10943729B2	Entangled inductor structures An entangled inductor structure generates opposite polarity internal magnetic fields therein to substantially reduce, or cancel, external magnetic fields propagating outside of the entangled inductor structure. These reduced external magnetic fields propagating outside of the entangled inductor structure effectively reduce a keep out zone (KOZ) between the entangled inductor structure and other electrical, mechanical, and/or electro-mechanical components. This allows the entangled inductor structure to be situated closer to these other electrical, mechanical, and/or electro-mechanical components within the IC as compared to conventional inductors which generate larger external magnetic fields.
US10943723B2	Noise reducing and cooling enclosure The present disclosure provides descriptions of configurations for noise reducing and cooling enclosures and enclosure material. The noise reducing and cooling enclosures seal and passively acoustically quiet acoustic energy generated by one or more noise emitting devices within the enclosure, and dissipate heat generated by the devices through conduction by use of composite enclosure materials.
US10943721B2	Magnet device comprising stators and translators A magnetic device comprising at least one stator (1) and one actuator (2), wherein the stator (1) and the actuator (2) respectively comprise at least one magnet with pole ends and a line of action of the magnet, and the actuator (2) can be moved linearly along a movement axis (3) and/or rotatably about a movement axis in a movement direction (4), wherein a stator line of action (15) of the stator (1) or a stator extension line (16) of the stator line of action (15), which stator extension line (16) extends as a geometric ray away from the pole end of the stator (1) as geometric tangent to the stator line of action (5), and an actuator line of action (25) of the translator (2) or an actuator extension line (26) of the translator line of action (25), which translator extension line (26) extends as a geometric ray away from the pole end of the translator (2) as geometric tangent to the translator line of action (25), respectively have intersection points (10), and the stator line of action (15), possibly the stator extension line (16), the translator line of action (25), and possibly the translator extension line (26) form a closed geometric shape so that the magnetic flux between the stator (1) and the translator (2) is bundled, wherein lines of action (5) and extension lines (6) extend through the magnetic device in an intersecting plane (11) comprising the movement axis (3).
US10943717B2	R-T-B based permanent magnet An R-T-B based permanent magnet includes main phase grains composed of R2T14B type compound. R is a rare earth element. T is iron group element(s) essentially including Fe or Fe and Co. B is boron. An average grain size of the main phase grains is 0.8 μm or more and 2.8 μm or less. The R-T-B based permanent magnet contains at least C and Zr in addition to R, T, and B. B is contained at 0.75 mass % or more and 0.88 mass % or less. Zr is contained at 0.65 mass % or more and 5.00 mass % or less. A formula (1) of 5.0≤[B]+[C]−[Zr]≤5.6 is satisfied, where [B] is a B content represented by atom %, [C] is a C content represented by atom %, and [Zr] is a Zr content represented by atom %.
US10943716B2	Permanent magnet and rotary electrical machine A high-performance permanent magnet is provided. A permanent magnet expressed by a composition formula: (R1-xAx)pFeqMrCutCo100-p-r-t. The magnet comprises a metal structure including a plurality of crystal grains which constitutes a main phase having a Th2Zn17 crystal phase, An Fe concentration of each of the crystal grains is 28 atomic % or more. A concentration difference of the element A among the crystal grains is not less than 0.2 atomic % nor more than 3.0 atomic %.
US10943707B2	Rubidium elution system control Embodiments of the present invention provide for assessing the state of an 82Rb elution system. In certain embodiments, a system begins an assessment that comprises an elution, and a metric may be measured. This metric may be a concentration of 82Rb, 82Sr, or 85Sr in a fluid that is eluted from the generator, the volume of the fluid that is eluted from the generator, or the pressure of the fluid flowing through at least one portion of the system. If the assessment is completed, an output may be generated on a user interface that recommends a course of action, or no course of action, based on a result of the assessment. Should the assessment not complete successfully because it is interrupted, a 82Sr/82Rb generator of the system may be halted so as to prevent a user from performing an end-run around these quality control mechanisms of the 82Rb elution system.
US10943706B2	Hazardous material canister systems and methods Techniques for inspecting a weld of a nuclear waste canister include positioning a gamma ray image detector near a nuclear waste canister that encloses nuclear waste. The nuclear waste canister includes a housing that includes a volume in which the waste is enclosed and a top connected to the housing with at least one weld to seal the nuclear waste in the nuclear waste canister. The techniques further include receiving, at the gamma ray image detector, gamma rays from the nuclear waste that travel through one or more voids in the weld; generating an image of the received gamma rays with the gamma ray image detector; and based on the generated image, determining an integrity of the at least one weld.
US10943694B2	Automated incident response method and system An automated emergency response method and system to remotely and timely update emergency response protocols, such as Emergency Medical Dispatch Protocol Reference Systems (EMDPRS), is provided. A method and system to remotely and timely update the EMDPRS in a controlled, consistent and timely manner is also provided. A method that can provide accurate, up-to-date and consistent EMDPRS provides the advantage of increasing operator readiness and efficiency in responding to an emergency, and increases the chances of success in dealing with the emergency.
US10943692B1	System and method for generating quaternary images of biologic force propagation and recovery A patient monitoring system is disclosed comprising at least one processor programmed to process medical data derived from a patient or medical records repository and to compose interconnected cascades of sepsis by linking or grouping four fundamental elements which comprise; a perturbation, at least one perturbation force which is capable of inducing and may have induced the perturbation, a recovery, and at least one recovery force which is capable of inducing and may have induced the perturbation. The four elements are linked or grouped by the processor to generate a quaternary which may be characterized as solved or unsolved.
US10943671B2	Method for designing RNA-binding protein utilizing PPR motif, and use thereof A method for designing a protein capable of binding in an RNA base selective manner or RNA base sequence specific manner is provided. The protein of the present invention is a protein containing one or more of PPR motifs (preferably 2 to 14 PPR motifs) each consisting of a polypeptide of 30- to 38-amino acid length represented by the formula 1 (wherein Helix A is a moiety of 12-amino acid length capable of forming an α-helix structure, and is represented by the formula 2, wherein, in the formula 2, A1 to A12 independently represent an amino acid; X does not exist, or is a moiety of 1- to 9-amino acid length; Helix B is a moiety of 11- to 13-amino acid length capable of forming an α-helix structure; and L is a moiety of 2- to 7-amino acid length represented by the formula 3, wherein, in the formula 3, the amino acids are numbered “i” (−1), “ii” (−2), and so on from the C-terminus side, provided that Liii to Lvii may not exist), and combination of three amino acids A1, A4 and Lii or combination of two amino acids A4, and Lii is a combination corresponding to a target RNA base or base sequence.
US10943669B2	Memory system and method for optimizing read threshold A memory system includes a memory device and a controller. The controller performs a test read operation on a read data set of the memory device, using multiple read threshold entries and determines which are good read threshold entries based on results of the read operation. The controller selects a best read threshold entry among the multiple read threshold entries based on a result of the test read operation, partitions the read data set into a good data set decodable by the best read threshold entry and a bad data set undecodable by the best read threshold entry, and sets the bad data set as a new read data set.
US10943666B2	Power switch circuit and method providing power supply to memory device A power switch circuit comprises a first level shifter configured to turn on a first switching element configured to receive a supply voltage from an external voltage supply pad in response to a program operation of a one-time programmable (OTP) memory cell array, a second level shifter configured to turn on a second switching element and provide the supply voltage to the OTP memory cell array in response to the program operation, a third level shifter configured to turn on a third switching element and provide an internally generated power voltage to the OTP memory cell array in response to a read operation of the OTP memory cell array, and an Electro-Static Discharge (ESD) protection circuit configured to turn off the first switching element in response to a flow of ESD voltage from the voltage supply pad.
US10943665B1	Method of programming and verifying memory device and related memory device When programming and verifying a memory device which includes a plurality of memory cells and a plurality of word lines, a first coarse programming is first performed on a first memory cell among the plurality of memory cells which is controlled by a first word line among the plurality of word lines, and then a second coarse programming is performed on a second memory cell among the plurality of memory cells which is controlled by a second word line among the plurality of word lines. Next, a first coarse verify current is used for determining whether the first memory cell passes a coarse verification and a second coarse verify current is used for determining whether the second memory cell passes a second coarse verification, wherein the second coarse verify current is smaller than the first coarse verify current.
US10943658B2	Writing multiple levels in a phase change memory Structures and methods for a multi-bit phase change memory, are provided herein. A method includes establishing a write-reference voltage that incrementally ramps over a write period. The increments of the write-reference voltage correspond to discrete resistance states of a storage cell of the multi-bit phase change memory.
US10943656B2	Methods and apparatuses having a voltage generator with an adjustable voltage drop for representing a voltage drop of a memory cell and/or a current mirror circuit and replica circuit Apparatus and methods utilize a replica circuit to generate a voltage for programming of a memory cell, such as a memory cell of a phase-change memory (PCM). Current passing through a circuit including the memory cell to be programmed is mirrored in a scaled or unscaled manner, and provided as an input to the replica circuit. The replica circuit represents voltage drops that should be encountered when programming the memory cell. An input voltage is also provided to the replica circuit, which affects the voltage drop within the replica circuit that represents the voltage drop of the cell. The voltage drop across the replica circuit can then be mirrored and provided to bias the circuit including the memory cell.
US10943651B2	Semiconductor memory device, memory system, and write method According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a semiconductor memory device including a memory cell capable of holding at least 4-bit data and a controller configured to control a first write operation and a second write operation based on the 4-bit data. The controller includes a conversion circuit configured to convert 4-bit data into 2-bit data. The semiconductor memory device includes a recovery controller configured to recover the 4-bit data based on the converted 2-bit data and data written in the memory cell by the first write operation. The first write operation is executed based on the 4-bit data received from the controller, and the second write operation is executed based on the 4-bit data recovered by the recovery controller.
US10943647B1	Bit-line mux driver with diode header for computer memory A method includes receiving, at a bitline-mux driver circuit, a subarray activation (SUBA) signal and a delay signal. The bitline-mux driver circuit includes a header circuit operable to output a driver voltage to a plurality of driver circuits. The driver voltage is boosted through a voltage divider with diode header circuit based on the SUBA signal to set the driver voltage to a value above a standard supply voltage (VDD) and between a voltage bitline high (VBLH) level and a high voltage (VPP) level. The VPP level exceeds a maximum allowed voltage (VMAX) level of the driver circuits. A master wordline output of the driver circuits is driven to select a bitline mux of a computer memory module based on an address input signal, the delay signal, and the driver voltage.
US10943645B2	Memory device with a booster word line A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor includes a plurality of memory cells arranged in rows and columns. The device further includes a plurality of primary word lines, each being connected to a first plurality of memory cells arranged in a row and a plurality of bit line pairs, each being connected to a second plurality of memory cells arranged in a column. The device further includes a word line driver circuit operative to select a first primary word line of the plurality of primary word lines and charge the selected first primary word line from a first end and a secondary word line operative to charge the selected first primary word line from a second end.
US10943640B2	Apparatus, method and system for providing termination for multiple chips of an integrated circuit package Techniques and mechanisms for providing termination for a plurality of chips of a memory device. In an embodiment, a memory device is an integrated circuit (IC) package which includes a command and address bus and a plurality of memory chips each coupled thereto. Of the plurality of memory chips, only a first memory chip is operable to selectively provide termination to the command and address bus. Of the respective on-die termination control circuits of the plurality of memory chips, only the on-die termination control circuit of the first memory chip is coupled via any termination control signal line to any input/output (I/O) contact of the IC package. In another embodiment, the plurality of memory chips are configured in a series with one another, and wherein the first memory chip is located at an end of the series.
US10943637B2	Apparatus with a row-hammer address latch mechanism An apparatus includes an address bus configured to convey a command address; a primary address latch connected to the address bus and configured to latch a first address; a primary counter connected to the primary address latch and configured to track a primary count value when the command address matches the first address; and a secondary counter connected to the primary counter and configured to update a secondary count value when the primary count value reaches a primary threshold.
US10943633B2	Redundancy array column decoder for memory Methods, systems, and apparatuses for redundancy in a memory array are described. A memory array may include some memory cells that are redundant to other memory cells of the array. Such redundant memory cells may be used if a another memory cell is discovered to be defective in some way; for example, after the array is fabricated and before deployment, defects in portions of the array that affect certain memory cells may be identified. Memory cells may be designated as redundant cells for numerous other memory cells of the array so that a total number of redundant cells in the array is relatively small fraction of the total number of cells of the array. A configuration of switching components may allow redundant cells to be operated in a manner that supports redundancy for numerous other cells and may limit or disturbances to neighboring cells when accessing redundancy cells.
US10943632B2	Magnetic storage device A magnetic storage device includes a memory cell with a magnetoresistive effect element and a switching element connected in series. The magnetoresistive effect element is configured to change from a first resistance state to a second resistance state that is lower in resistance than the first resistance state in response to a first write operation flowing current in a first direction through the memory cell and to change from the second resistance state to the first resistance state in response to a second write operation flowing current in a second direction through the memory cell. The switching element has a first voltage drop associated with current flows in the first direction and has a second voltage drop associated with current flows the second direction that is lower than the first voltage drop.
US10943630B2	Clock synchronizing method of a multiple clock domain memory device A memory device includes: a first clock receiver configured to receive a first clock signal; a second clock receiver configured to receive a second clock signal when data is input or output, wherein the second clock signal has a first clock frequency in a preamble period, and has a second clock frequency different from the first clock frequency after the preamble period; a command decoder configured to receive a clock synchronization command synchronized with the first clock signal and generate a clock synchronization signal, wherein the clock synchronization signal is generated during the preamble period; and a clock synchronizing circuit configured to generate a plurality of division clock signals in response to the second clock signal, latch the clock synchronization signal during the preamble period, and selectively provide the plurality of division clock signals as internal data clock signals according to a result of the latching.
US10943626B1	Semiconductor memory device with power gating circuit for data input-output control block and data input/output block and semiconductor system including the same A semiconductor device includes a data input/output control block including a first power gating circuit coupled to a supply terminal of a first voltage and a second power gating circuit coupled to a supply terminal of a second voltage, the data input/output control block suitable for generating a control signal using the first and second voltages, a data input/output block including a third power gating circuit coupled to any one of the supply terminal of the first voltage and the supply terminal of the second voltage, the data input/output block suitable for inputting and outputting a data signal using the first and second voltages based on the control signal, and a memory block, coupled to the data input/output block, suitable for writing or reading the data signal.
US10943618B1	Ethereum state data storage optimization method, Ethereum system and storage medium Disclosed are an Ethereum state data storage optimization method, an Ethereum state data storage optimization system, and an Ethereum system. The method includes: using an MPT tree structure to store Ethereum state data; and compressing a height of an MPT tree, so as to reduce the number of times of disk io. By increasing capacity of a branch node, optimization in a horizontal direction can be performed to the MPT tree of Ethereum state data; by compressing the height of the MPT tree of the Ethereum state data on a single prefix path, optimization in a vertical direction can be performed to the MPT tree of the Ethereum state data; and by selecting and arranging different key lengths according to a data type, layers of the MPT tree can be effectively reduced, so that the purpose of reducing the number of times of disk io can be achieved.
US10943617B2	Shared disk drive component system A server box embodiment is disclosed that generally comprises an array of dummy HDDs that share a common set of universal disk drive components in a master components module, or power module. Each dummy HDDs is constructed without expensive onboard chipsets that control the normal functionality of a standard HDD. By sharing expensive chipsets in a master components module (power module) money can be saved in building and selling the dummy HDD server. Embodiments envision a power module possessing the needed chipset functionality that is missing in a dummy HDD. The power module can be made to move from dummy HDD to dummy HDD supplying the necessary chipset in a shared manner when data is being stored or retrieved for client or end-user.
US10943616B2	Current-assisted magnetic recording write head with wide conductive element in the write gap A current-assisted magnetic recording write head has an electrically conductive layer in the write gap between the write pole and the trailing shield. Electrical circuitry directs current between the write pole and the trailing shield, through the conductive layer in the write gap. The current through the conductive layer generates an Ampere field substantially orthogonal to the magnetization in the write pole to assist magnetization switching of the write pole. The conductive layer is wider in the cross-track direction than the trailing edge of the write pole and may extend beyond the write pole side gaps so as to be in contact with both the side shields and the trailing shield. The conductive layer may have substantially the same along-the-track thickness across its width or it may have a thicker central region at the write pole trailing edge and thinner side regions.
US10943602B2	Open vs enclosed spatial environment classification for a mobile or wearable device using microphone and deep learning method A method and apparatus for classifying a spatial environment as open or enclosed are provided. In the method and apparatus, one or more microphones detect ambient sound in a spatial environment and output an audio signal representative of the ambient sound. A processor determines a spatial environment impulse response (SEIR) for the audio signal and extracts one or more features of the SEIR. The processor classifies the spatial environment as open or enclosed based on the one or more features of the SEIR.
US10943588B2	Methods and systems for managing voice response systems based on references to previous responses Embodiments for managing a voice response system by one or more processors are described. At least one communication from an individual is received. A reference to a previous response executed by a voice response system is identified within the at least one received communication. A response to the at least one received communication is determined based on the previous response executed by the voice response system.
US10943578B2	Driving techniques for phased-array systems Various techniques for driving phased array systems are described, specifically intended for acoustic phased arrays with applications to mid-air haptics, parametric audio, acoustic levitation and acoustic imaging, including a system: 1) that is capable of mitigating the effect of the changes in the air to provide a consistent haptic experience; 2) that produces trap points in air; 3) that defines phased-array optimization in terms of vectors for the production of more consistent haptic effects; 4) that defines one or more control points or regions in space via a controlled acoustic field; 5) that uses a reduced representation method for the construction of acoustic basis functions; 6) that performs efficient evaluation of complex-valued functions for a large quantity of throughput; 7) that generates a Krylov sub-space of a matrix; and 8) that maximizes an objective described by different control points and/or regions to those used to create the acoustic basis functions.
US10943535B2	Organic light emitting display device and method for determining gamma reference voltage thereof An organic light emitting display device includes a display panel, a gamma reference voltage generator, and a gamma voltage generator. The gamma reference voltage generator provides the data voltage having a predetermined voltage level to the display panel, changes brightness of the display panel by sequentially reducing the data voltage, determines a critical voltage by comparing a changing amount of the brightness to a predetermined reference changing amount of the brightness, and determines the gamma reference voltage based on the critical.
US10943532B2	Monolithic full-color light-emitting diode display panel The present disclosure relates to a monolithic full-color light-emitting diode (LED) display panel. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels and each pixel includes a first LED for emitting light having a first primary color, a second LED for emitting light having a second primary color, a third LED for emitting light having the first primary color, and a color converting layer for converting light generated by the third LED into light having a third primary color. Since the first, second and third LEDs of each pixel are formed with the same multi-layer semiconductor structure, the fabrication process of the display panel can be substantially simplified resulting in higher yield, increased throughput and lower cost.
US10943525B2	Display device and multiplexer thereof A display device comprises a plurality of pixels and a plurality of multiplexers. Each of the plurality of multiplexers is coupled with N data lines, and configured to receive N−1 switching signals and a data signal. N is a positive integer larger than or equal to 3, and each of the N data lines is coupled with one column of pixels of the plurality of pixels. When any of the N−1 switching signals has an enabling voltage level, the multiplexer is disabled from transmitting the data signal to an N-th data line of the N data lines. When each of the N−1 switching signals has a disabling voltage level, the multiplexer transmits the data signal to the N-th data line.
US10943521B2	Intra-field sub code timing in field sequential displays Embodiments provide a computer implemented method for warping multi-field color virtual content for sequential projection. First and second color fields having different first and second colors are obtained. A first time for projection of a warped first color field is determined. A first pose corresponding to the first time is predicted. For each one color among the first colors in the first color field, (a) an input representing the one color among the first colors in the first color field is identified; (b) the input is reconfigured as a series of pulses creating a plurality of per-field inputs; and (c) each one of the series of pulses is warped based on the first pose. The warped first color field is generated based on the warped series of pulses. Pixels on a sequential display are activated based on the warped series of pulses to display the warped first color field.
US10943516B2	Systems and methods of utilizing output of display component for display temperature compensation A method of adjusting a control signal to a component of an electronic display based on a temperature of the component, includes measuring current outputs of the component in response to applied gate voltages. The method also includes applying a mapping function to the current outputs to generate adapted current outputs, which are utilized to determine an intermediate value related to the temperature of the component. The intermediate value corresponds to a relationship between the applied gate voltages and the adapted current outputs. The intermediate value also enables the intermediate value to be substantially independent of hysteresis of the current outputs. The control signals to the component may be adjusted based at least in part on the determined intermediate value for the component.
US10943508B2	Anatomical model and method for surgical training Implementations relate to anatomical models and surgical training. In some implementations, an anatomical training model includes a base portion and a top portion that form a hollow space between the base portion and top portion. A plurality of holes are positioned in the top portion. The model includes a plurality of cannula supports, where each cannula support is aligned with one or more corresponding holes in the top portion.
US10943497B2	Personalized e-learning using a deep-learning-based knowledge tracing and hint-taking propensity model Techniques are described for jointly modeling knowledge tracing and hint-taking propensity. During a read phase, a co-learning model accepts as inputs an identification of a question and the current knowledge state for a learner, and the model predicts probabilities that the learner will answer the question correctly and that the learner will use a learning aid (e.g., accept a hint). The predictions are used to personalize an e-learning plan, for example, to provide a personalized assessment. By using these predictions to personalize a learner's experience, for example, by offering hints at optimal times, the co-learning system increases efficiencies in learning and improves learning outcomes. Once a learner has interacted with a question, the interaction is encoded and provided to the co-learning model to update the learner's knowledge state during an update phase.
US10943492B2	Four-dimensional trajectory uplinking system for aircraft A method, an apparatus, and a system for transmitting four-dimensional trajectories to an aircraft. Four-dimensional trajectory information for a four-dimensional trajectory for a flight of an aircraft is received. The four-dimensional trajectory information includes trajectory change points describing the four-dimensional trajectory. A subset of the trajectory change points that describe a shape of the four-dimensional trajectory is selected. A message containing the subset of the trajectory change points is created in a format used by an aircraft computer system in the aircraft. The message is transmitted to the aircraft computer system.
US10943475B2	Parking sensors capable of determining direction and speed of vehicle entering or leaving a parking lot A parking inventory management system includes a sensor apparatus with a plurality of magnetometers each configured to respectively generate a magnetic signatures of a vehicle as it drives across the sensor apparatus. A computing device is associated with the sensor apparatus and compares the magnetic signatures of the vehicle generated by each of the plurality of magnetometers to the magnetic signatures of the vehicle generated by each other magnetometer of the plurality thereof so as to determine a direction of the vehicle. A match between the magnetic signature of the vehicle as generated by at least two of the plurality of magnetometers indicates that the direction of travel of the vehicle is along a direction between those two of the plurality of magnetometers. A speed of the vehicle is derived as a function of a time difference between points of peak similarity between matching magnetic signatures of the vehicle.
US10943471B1	Biometric authentication using proximity and secure information on a user device A system and method provides biometric authentication using proximity and secure information on a Personal Digital Key (PDK). The PDK stores a biometric profile of a legitimate user in a secured memory. The PDK acquires biometric input from a user using a biometric reader of the PDK responsive to receiving a request for a biometric authentication of the legitimate user. The PDK compares the biometric input to the biometric profile to determine whether the biometric input matches the biometric profile. A secure wireless communication link is established between the PDK and a reader device if the biometric input matches the biometric profile and the PDK device is within proximity of the reader device to send an identification code uniquely identifying the PDK device over to the reader device. The reader device sends information including the identification code to a trusted third-party system for authentication.
US10943467B1	Central alarm station interface for situation awareness A method for analyzing security alarms is provided. The method comprising receiving alarm data from a number of security sensors generating alarms, wherein the alarm data includes spatio-temporal data regarding where and when an alarm is triggered. The alarm data is displayed on a user interface. The alarm data is analyzed for spatio-temporal relationships among the alarms according to a number of pattern recognition algorithms. The alarms are identified as genuine alarms if a discernable pattern is recognized among the alarms.
US10943463B1	Technologies for assistance and security services Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for personal emergency assistance. An example method can include detecting a need for assistance associated with a user; determining a location associated with the user and a type of assistance needed; selecting a communications interface on a device associated with the user for transmitting an assistance request over a network; transmitting, to a destination system associated with an assistance service, the assistance request via the communications interface selected, the assistance request specifying the location associated with the user and the type of assistance needed; exchanging assistance updates between the device and destination system, the assistance updates comprising location updates, event updates, a status of the assistance request, and/or a status of an assistance response; and providing, by the device, assistance information comprising at least a portion of the assistance updates, the assistance information being provided via a display and/or speaker of the device.
US10943456B1	Virtual safety guardian A method for monitoring safety conditions within an environment includes monitoring an environment by identifying one or more users accessing the environment based on existing and generic profiles selected based on visual recognition and analysis techniques, and consensually monitoring activity within the environment. A context of a situation of the one or more users accessing the environment is determined, based on a set of predetermined rules tailored to the environment, identified users of the one or more users, and monitoring data from monitoring the activity of the one or more users within the environment. Responsive to determining the context of the situation within the environment is an unsafe, based on the monitoring data and the set of predetermined rules, a mitigating action is selected from a set of mitigating actions corresponding to the determined context of the situation, and the mitigating action that is selected is automatically deployed.
US10943449B2	High sensitivity fiber optic based detection A detection system for measuring one or more conditions within a predetermined area includes a fiber harness having at least one fiber optic cable for transmitting light, the at least one fiber optic cable defining a node arranged to measure the one or more conditions. A control system is operably coupled to the fiber harness such that scattered light associated with the node is transmitted to the control system, wherein the control system analyzes the scattered light to determine at least one of a presence and magnitude of the one or more conditions at the node. An optical enhancement device is operably connected to the fiber harness or to the control system to reduce interference sources transmitted from the node.
US10943448B1	Geo-locked field device A geo-locked field device that is situated in a non-moving position and is operable as long as its position, including altitude and direction, is unchanged. If the position of the device is changed or disturbed, then the device will become inoperable. If the position is returned to its former position after being disturbed and rendered inoperable, then the device will continue to be inoperable. Providing a special signal to the device may cause it to become operable.
US10943444B2	Smart home device providing intuitive illumination-based status signaling Various methods and systems for smart home devices are presented. Such smart home devices may include one or more environmental sensors that are configured to detect the presence of one or more environmental conditions. Such smart home devices may include a light comprising a plurality of lighting elements. Such a light may be configured to illuminate using a plurality of colors and, possibly, a plurality of animation patterns. Such smart home devices may include a processing system configured to cause the light to illuminate using the plurality of colors and the plurality of animation patterns in response to a plurality of states of the smart home device.
US10943441B1	Image processing system and method for detecting errors in an ATM terminal A system is configured for detecting errors in an ATM. The system includes a processor that receives a withdrawal request from a user to receive cash from a cash dispenser of the ATM. Currency denominations and a number of bills for each currency denomination needed to fulfill the withdrawal request is determined. The expected cash to be dispensed from the ATM is a sum of multiplications of each currency denomination with its number of bills. The system sends signal commands to cassettes of the ATM to dispense bills to fulfill the withdrawal request. A camera is positioned in a pathway of the bills being dispensed from the cassettes to the cash dispenser. The camera captures images of bills being dispensed from the cassettes and sends them to the processor. The processor generates an alert if the actual dispensed cash from the cassettes does not match the expected cash.
US10943433B2	System managed player group play pools According to one embodiment, managing a player pool can comprise receiving a request to initiate a player pool and generating a record defining the player pool and defining a rule for the player pool. The rule can define handling of results of gaming activity in which members of the player pool participate and handling of a player pool amount at an occurrence of a predetermined event. Requests can be received from participants to participate in the player pool and the record defining the player pool can be updated to indicate addition of the participants. An indication of a contribution amount made by each participant can also be received and the record can be updated to increment the player pool amount based on the contributions. Gaming activity of the participants can be monitored and the player pool amount can be updated based on the monitor and the rule for the player pool.
US10943430B2	Registering a player account using third party user information, and related systems, devices, and methods Systems, devices and methods for registering a player account using third party user information include scanning, by a scanning device, an encoded identifier associated with a first server and transmitting a request to access a player account of the player to the first server based on the encoded identifier. In response to an indication that the player account does not exist, the user device causes a second request message to be transmitted to a second server operated by a third party provider to access a user account associated with the player. The second server transfers user information associated with the user account to the first server. The user device next transmits an account registration message, which includes an instruction to create a new player account associated with the player, to the first server. Based on creation of the new player account, the user device accesses the player account.
US10943423B2	Autonomous cash box and payment terminal receiving the autonomous cash box An autonomous cash box for use in a payment terminal comprises an enclosure and a top portion mounted to the enclosure. The top portion has a displaceable lid. An electric motor and a control unit are mounted within the enclosure. The control unit is configured to activate the electric motor to selectively displace the lid to open or close the top portion of the autonomous cash box. A payment terminal receives the autonomous cash. Commands to open or close the lid may be sent from a wireless transmitter in the payment terminal and received at a wireless receiver of the autonomous cash box.
US10943419B2	Physical structure, state machine, and concepts of a RFID walk-through gate A walk-though gate (WTG) is presented. The WTG includes a WTG structure including a first wall and a second wall, the first and second walls defining a walk though pass way between an entrance and exit, at least one sensor located at the entrance and the exit of a cavity defined by the walk though pass way, at least one first antenna facing toward an inside region of the WTG structure, at least one second antenna facing away from the inside region of the WTG structure, an RFID reader connected to the at least one first and second antennas, and a judgement module to judge if an RFID tag is located inside or outside the walk though gate structure.
US10943401B2	Active visual recognition in mobile augmented reality A method, computer system, and a computer program product for intelligently generating an augmented reality (AR)-assisted repair guidance for a user is provided. The present invention may include detecting a scan of an object. The present invention may then include filtering one or more pose-controlled video frames. The present invention may also include extracting at least one new image feature by utilizing a convolutional neural network (CNN) based on the filtered one or more pose-controlled video frames. The present invention may also include aggregating a plurality of visual information associated with the object by utilizing the CNN, wherein the extracted at least one new image feature is included in the aggregated plurality of visual information. The present invention may further include presenting three dimensional (3D) animated instructions to the user, wherein the 3D animated instructions include an AR-assisted repair guidance for the object.
US10943394B2	System that generates a three-dimensional beauty assessment that includes region specific sensor data and recommended courses of action A system is providing that includes processing circuitry configured to receive information of a specific sensed condition of a body part of a user detected by the at least one sensor of a device during a session, receive information of a tracked location of the device from a location tracker during the session, associate a specific time when the specific sensed condition is detected with a location of the device in space at the specific time, and determine a location on the body part in a three-dimensional virtual environment where the specific sensed condition occurs based on the associated specific time and location of the device.
US10943392B2	Digital elevation model quality control A method can include receiving, first and second digital elevation models (DEMs) including first elevation data of a geographic location and second elevation data of the geographic location, respectively, identifying differences between the first elevation data and the second elevation data that are greater than a first threshold, determining, for a point in the second elevation data identified to correspond to a difference greater than the first threshold, a slope of the geographic location around and including the point, and altering, in response to determining the difference is greater than a second threshold determined based on the determined slope, elevation data of the second DEM corresponding to the point.
US10943384B2	Utilizing smooth shading patches in image rendering Example systems and related methods relate to rendering using smooth shading. A computing device can receive information about an image, the information including one or more patches, where a particular patch of the one or more patches is specified using a plurality of non-linear equations. The computing device can determine one or more linear approximations to a particular non-linear equation of the plurality of non-linear equations. The computing device can update the particular patch to replace the particular non-linear equation with at least one linear approximation of the one or more linear approximations. The computing device can render at least part of the image by at least rendering the updated particular patch. The computing device can generate an output that includes the rendered at least part of the image.
US10943381B2	Conditional modification of augmented reality object A server machine modifies an augmented reality (AR) object in response to fulfillment of a condition. The machine provides, to a user device, object data that defines the AR object. The object data specifies a physical geolocation of the AR object, a presentation attribute of the AR object, a conditional modification program, and a trigger condition for execution of the conditional modification program. The object data causes the user device to present the AR object with a first appearance, located at the physical geolocation. The machine detects fulfillment of the trigger condition, and in response, the machine executes the conditional modification program. This modifies the object data by modifying the presentation attribute. The machine provides, to the user device, the modified object data, which causes the user device to present the AR object with a second appearance based on the modified presentation attribute.
US10943379B2	Predictive viewport renderer and foveated color compressor An embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a focus identifier to identify a focus area, and a color compressor to selectively compress color data based on the identified focus area. Another embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a motion detector to detect motion of a real object, a motion predictor to predict a motion of the real object, and an object placer to place a virtual object relative to the real object based on the predicted motion of the real object. Another embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a frame divider to divide a frame into viewports, a viewport prioritizer to prioritize the viewports, a renderer to render a viewport of the frame in order in accordance with the viewport priorities, and a viewport transmitter to transmit a completed rendered viewport. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US10943373B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method The present disclosure relates to an image processing apparatus and an image processing method that make it possible to generate a texture image of high picture quality at a predetermined viewpoint using an omnidirectional image. A drawing section generates a display image of a given viewpoint using a first layer image including a texture image and a depth image of an omnidirectional image and a second layer image including a texture image and a depth image in an occlusion region at a viewpoint of the first layer image. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a home server that generates a display image of a predetermined viewpoint from an omnidirectional image or the like.
US10943369B2	Method for calibrating an optical measurement set-up A method calibrates an optical measurement set-up with a measurement volume seeded with particles and at least two cameras so that the measurement volume can be mapped from different observation angles. The method includes simultaneously mapping the measurement volume by the cameras to produce images; rectifying each camera image in relation to a common reference plane in the measurement volume by using the respective pre-calibrated mapping function; performing two-dimensional correlation for at least one pair of rectified camera images to produce correlation fields that present an elongate correlation maxima band for each correlation field; reducing the correlation maxima band to a straight line representing the band; determining the distance of this representative straight line from the coordinate origin of the correlation field as a correction value, using the determined correction values to correct the mapping functions of those cameras for which rectified camera images were included in the correlations.
US10943365B2	Method and system of virtual footwear try-on with improved occlusion A method and system of virtual footwear try-on with improved occlusion processing are disclosed. The method comprises: capturing a foot image of a user; defining an ankle joint point in the foot image and defining at least one reference point according to the ankle joint point; capturing depth point data within a spatial range around the reference point and constructing an occlusion model according to the depth point data; positioning the occlusion model to a position corresponding to the foot image to obtain an occlusion processed image; positioning the footwear model on the occlusion processed image to produce a matching image of the footwear model and the foot; and hiding the occlusion model.
US10943352B2	Object shape regression using wasserstein distance One embodiment can provide a system for detecting outlines of objects in images. During operation, the system receives an image that includes at least one object, generates a random noise signal, and provides the received image and the random noise signal to a shape-regressor module, which applies a shape-regression model to predict a shape outline of an object within the received image.
US10943338B2	Edge-induced visual illusion generation apparatus, method of generating edge-induced visual illusion, edge-induced visual illusion generation program, printing medium, and recording medium Provided are an edge-induced visual illusion generation apparatus, a method, a program, and a recording medium capable of being applied to any image, automatically generating an edge-induced visual illusion without complicated work, and improving contrast using the edge-induced visual illusion. A two-dimensional digital filter, which is a filter with no orientation or an even filter with orientation and is a filter that allows a band of a relatively high frequency to pass or a high pass filter, or is an orientation-selective wavelet frame or an orientation-selective filter bank that are a set of an approximation filter with no orientation and detail filters with orientations, is applied to image data, and a component of a relatively high frequency band or a high frequency component is extracted, and/or coloring is applied to an edge of the extracted band component or the high frequency component, thereby generating an edge-induced visual illusion image.
US10943335B2	Hybrid tone mapping for consistent tone reproduction of scenes in camera systems A mechanism is described for facilitating hybrid tone mapping in camera systems according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes detecting a scene having a sequence of frames, and fusing the sequence of frames into a fused raw frame. The method may further include reconstructing the scene by performing global tone mapping and local tone mapping on the fused raw frame, and outputting an image reflecting the reconstructed scene based on the tone-mapped raw frame.
US10943334B2	Method and system for representation of vehicle surroundings with reduced artefacts A system is configured to repair artefacts in image data when representing vehicle surroundings. This involves: detecting an artefact-comprising area of a vehicle camera for a first time point, creating a reconstructed version of the artefact-comprising area from image data of an adjacent image area, determining a sample point of the artefact-comprising area, transforming the sample point to a new location predicted for a second time point, determining whether the new location still lies within the artefact-comprising area, and if so updating the artefact-comprising area in the image for the second time point by using motion-compensated image data from the reconstructed version of the sample point from the first time point.
US10943332B2	Image adjustment method and associated image processing circuit for image quality improvement An image adjustment method includes: receiving an image, and retrieving R, G and B values and an infrared ray (IR) value from the image; dividing the image into a plurality of blocks; generating initial compensation coefficients respectively corresponding to the R, G, B and IR values for each block within the blocks; and performing following operations upon each block within the blocks: adjusting initial compensation coefficients of a current block according to a plurality of adjacent blocks next to the current block, in order to generate adjusted compensation coefficients of the current block; and using the adjusted compensation coefficients of the current block to perform IR crosstalk compensation upon the current block.
US10943330B2	Image processing filter Examples of the present disclosure relate to an image processing apparatus comprising a filter to convert a first image data signal into an output image data signal. The filter is configured to resample the first image data signal, having a first sample rate, by a resampling factor, such that the output image data signal has an output sample rate that is different to the first sample rate. The filter is also configured to apply a phase alteration to the first image data signal to compensate a group delay in the first image data signal.
US10943329B2	Systems and methods for facilitating enhanced display characteristics based on viewer state Systems and methods for facilitating enhanced display characteristics based on viewer state are provided. A media device may process an indication of a first state of a first viewer of a display device that is coupled to the media device. The indication of the first state of the first viewer may be captured at a time corresponding to the display device displaying first content with a first set of one or more size characteristics. The media device may determine a display adjustment based at least in part on the indication of the first state of the first viewer. The media device may cause the display device to display second content in accordance with the display adjustment so that the display device displays at least a portion of the second content with a second set of one or more size characteristics that is different from the first set of one or more size characteristics.
US10943318B2	Rail car terminal facility staging process In a method or apparatus for transporting bulk goods by rail cars on a rail network to a rail car handling terminal where the handling terminal includes a loading and/or unloading system with a metering device for measuring an amount of the bulk goods loaded or unloaded. At the terminal there is a center control data hub connecting to a plurality of portable hand held field computers and a communication system for communication with the rail network to obtain a Car Location Message (CLM), a way bill and mechanical data for each of the rail cars. The center control hub generates data indicating a current stage of each of the railcars and a signal indicative that a rail car can be transferred from one stage to another stage to the portable computers to control transfer of the rail car from one stage to the next stage.
US10943317B2	Systems and methods for multi-mode communication management Systems and methods for multi-mode communication management are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method comprises presenting real estate listings regarding properties to buyers. Accounts may be created for buyers and real estate agents. Communications from different communication types between one or more buyers and one or more real estate agents regarding any of the real estate listings may be captured. Metadata corresponding to each of the communications may be captured. The communications and the metadata may be stored. A request including identification of a particular real estate agent, a particular buyer, and a particular property may be received. Particular communications may be retrieved in response to the request, the particular communications corresponding to the particular real estate agent, the particular buyer, and the particular property. The particular communications may be provided to the particular real estate agent.
US10943312B2	Restaurant matching and filtering for use in a health tracking system A system and method of providing nutritional data for a user is disclosed herein. The method includes receiving a selected restaurant from a health tracking device, and providing menu data for the user based on the selected restaurant. The method further includes receiving a selected menu item from the health tracking device, associating the selected menu item with a plurality of food items in a database, and providing the plurality of food items for the user. Furthermore, the method includes receiving a selected one of the plurality of food items from the health tracking device, and providing nutritional data based on the selected one of the plurality of food items.
US10943302B2	Systems, methods, and computer program products for risk and insurance determination The invention enables determining at least one of an insurance risk score or an insurance cost through the steps of (i) receiving from one or more sensors disposed within one or more wearable devices worn by the individual, health parameter data corresponding to one or more states associated with the individual, (ii) validating the received health parameter data based on one or more predefined validation rules, (iii) responsive to validation of the health parameter data, recording said health parameter data and a unique ID associated with the individual in a blockchain, and (iv) retrieving from the blockchain, a plurality of instances of health parameter data associated with the unique ID, and generating based on an analysis of the retrieved plurality of instances of health parameter data, a risk score associated with the individual.
US10943301B1	Technology for building and managing data models Techniques for building and managing data models are provided. According to certain aspects, systems and methods may enable a user to input parameters associated with building one or more data models, including parameters associated with sampling, binning, and other factors. The systems and methods may automatically generate program code that corresponds to the inputted parameters and display the program code for review by the user. The systems and methods may build the data models and generate charts and plots depicting aspects of the data models. Additionally, the systems and methods may combine data models and select champion data models.
US10943300B1	System and method for reconciling property operation with a budget amount based on informatics Processing informatic related data from one or more sensor devices relating to property covered by an insurance policy. A budget amount is electronically received for operating the property for a predetermined period of time. Also received is informatic data from one or more sensor devices relating to the property. Analysis is performed on the received informatic data to identify and parse out data relating to one or more utility operational aspects associated with the property. Predefined business rules are applied to the parsed operational data to determine costs associated with the identified one or more operational aspects over the predetermined period of time. Changes are determined and identified regarding one or more operational aspects of the property so as to reconcile, for the predetermined period of time, the costs associated with the identified one or more operational aspects with the received budget amount for the property.
US10943297B2	Systems and methods for coordinating processing of instructions across multiple components The disclosed embodiments relate to implementation of a trading system or trading system architecture having multiple transaction processors that process or execute instructions. The instructions are sent to the transaction processors before they are to be executed, so that when an instruction identifier corresponding to a pre-sent or pre-loaded instruction is sent to a transaction processor, the transaction processor can retrieve and execute the corresponding instruction without unnecessary delay, thus reducing transaction processing latency and improving computing efficiency.
US10943287B1	Topview item tracking using a sensor array An object tracking system includes a sensor, a weight sensor, and a tracking system. The sensor is configured to capture a frame of at least a portion of a rack within a global plane for a space. The tracking system is configured to detect a weight decrease on the weight sensor. The tracking system is further configured to receive the frame of the rack, to determine a pixel location for a person, to determine the person is within a predefined zone associated with the rack. The tracking system is further configured to identify the item associated with the weight sensor and to add the identified item to a digital cart associated with the person.
US10943283B2	Service location recommendation tailoring Systems, apparatuses, and methods disclosed provide for recommending service locations. The method includes analyzing fault data and location positioning data of a vehicle provided via an onboard telematics device, determining one or more service sites based on the analysis, and presenting the one or more service sites to a customer.
US10943262B2	Telecommunications call augmentation system The present invention relates to a method of augmenting a telecommunications call, the method comprising detecting a telecommunications call event at a user telecommunications device 10; selecting an item of media content 101, the item of media content 101 being associated with a uniform resource identifier or URI; augmenting the call with the item of media content 101; detecting a user interaction with the item of media content 101; and on termination of the call, performing an action in dependence on the resource identified by the URI. The invention extends to a corresponding system and apparatus.
US10943254B1	Automatic performance-triggered feature discovery A hierarchical feature tree is generated. Each child node's feature is more specific than its respective parent node's feature. A behavioral model comprising features of the feature tree is created and used in the operation of an advertising campaign. A degraded model feature is detected at the discovery system by comparing a performance metric of a model feature from two different time windows. The discovery system matches a node of the feature tree with the degraded feature and selects a prospective model feature from a family node. An estimated performance metric for the prospective model feature is determined and the results are used to decide if the model should be updated to include the prospective model feature. The campaign can be operated with the automatically updated model.
US10943253B1	Consumer cross-category deal diversity A system and method is provided for determining a portfolio of promotions from across a diverse mix of promotion categories. The diverse promotion portfolio may represent an inventory of promotions that are available for presenting to a consumer in a particular market. Also, a system and method is provided for determining a diverse group of promotions for presenting to a consumer. The diverse group of promotions may be determined based on whether a same or similar promotion was previously presented to the consumer.
US10943248B2	Systems and methods for providing offers A method and system for providing geographic location notifications for targeted offers is disclosed. One embodiment of the invention is directed to a method including monitoring for an event to trigger a targeted offer. Upon detection of the event, the offer is generated. The offer is targeted to a consumer and is generated using payment data generated in response to transactions conducted by the consumer with a plurality of different merchants. A geographic location for redeeming the offer is determined. A notification message is generated about the offer. The notification message includes the offer and the geographic location for redeeming the offer. The notification message is sent to a notification device which is operated by the consumer. A graphical depiction of the offer is displayed on a map on the notification device.
US10943242B2	Interactive marketing system The present invention is a system which enables a marketing team to initiate and sustain directed and interactive communication with thousands or millions of existing or prospective customers. In the preferred embodiment, a marketer accesses a database and selects a group of qualified prospects, using lifestyle dimensions and or demographic information, from a stable group of prospective or existing customers conducting financial transactions online. Once a prospect list is selected, the marketer designs a series of questions, typically using branch and skip logic, and the system deploys the question sequence to the target list in the form of a response-redeemable savings coupon. When prospects are next performing their financial transactions online, they are presented with a lifestyle-relevant coupon which is immediately redeemable by responding to the question/communication.
US10943235B2	System and method of software-imitated user transactions using machine learning Systems and methods for detecting fraudulent activity in user transactions. An exemplary method includes, by a hardware processor, receiving user behavior data provided by an input device specifying a user interaction with graphical user interface (GUI) elements of a first application on a computing device for a transaction with a remote server, training a behavior classification algorithm using known behavior of the user, calculating an anomalous user behavior coefficient based on the user behavior data and the behavior classification algorithm, wherein the anomalous user behavior coefficient represents a likelihood that the user's interaction with the plurality of groups of elements of the graphical interface was fraudulent, detecting whether the user interaction is a software-imitated user interaction based on the anomalous user behavior coefficient, and responsive to detecting a software-imitated user interaction, blocking the transaction with the remote server.
US10943231B2	Systems and methods to generate a receipt for a transaction A system includes a transaction terminal that is configured to examine an authorization response for an indicator, which, when set, causes the transaction terminal to communicate with a portal to obtain content relevant to the receipt for the transaction approved by the authorization response. The content may identify the benefit of an offer applied to the transaction, which is not reflected in the authorization response. The content may direct the user to select an option regarding the delivery of the receipt. Options presented for selection include suppression of the printing of the paper receipt in favor of an electronic receipt transmitted to a communication reference of the user, printing a mini paper receipt in addition to transmitting an electronic receipt, and/or printing the full paper receipt at the transaction terminal.
US10943230B2	Method for monitoring usage patterns and electronic device capable of implementing such a method The invention relates to a method for controlling a transaction carried out between an electronic device comprising a secure memory and an external terminal by monitoring usage patterns of the electronic device, wherein a first and a second item of usage information are read when the transaction is carried out; a first list of data pairs is recorded on the secure memory, each of said pairs comprising the first and second (IU2) items of usage information; a second list of counters is recorded on the secure memory; an indicator for monitoring usage patterns of the electronic device is calculated on the basis of the first item of usage information, the second item of usage information, and/or a counter from the second list.
US10943218B1	Computing system and methods thereof for processing personalized electronic healthcare payment transactions Embodiments of a computing architecture for healthcare payments are disclosed.
US10943216B2	Systems and methods for updating stored cardholder account data A computer-implemented method for updating stored cardholder account data is provided. The method is implemented using an account updating server in communication with a memory. The method includes receiving, from an issuer computer system, cardholder account update information associated with a plurality of cardholder accounts, identifying a merchant associated with at least one of the plurality of cardholder accounts based, at least in part, on the cardholder account update information, generating a merchant update file for the identified merchant including the cardholder account update information for the at least one of the plurality of cardholder accounts, and transmitting the merchant update file.
US10943206B2	System and method for tracking products in open-loop supply or value chain A system for monitoring the life cycle of a product even in open-loop retail environment having regard to the associated supply or value chain, comprising tag provision equipment arranged to obtain product information and to configure a wirelessly interrogatable electronic identification tag provided with externally readable identification information to a product item, wherein configuring incorporates at least partially automated determination, according to predefined decision logic, of at least one technical characteristic of tag implementation based on the product information to optimize the operation of the tag, and electronic data management system accessible via a communications network, preferably the Internet, comprising a data interface configured to receive and transmit data, and a data repository configured to store indications of received digital notifications of tag reading events in a plurality of activities of the associated supply or value chain, said notifications conveying said tag identification information. A corresponding method for execution by the system is presented.
US10943204B2	Realtime video monitoring applied to reduce customer wait times A computer implemented method of detecting excessive customer wait times is provided. The method includes taking a headcount in a digital image obtained by a digital video camera of a monitored area, counting the number of bodies in the digital image, and rectifying the number of heads with the number of bodies to obtain a total count of persons. The method further includes determining which persons are moving and subtracting the moving persons from the total count of persons to obtain a still count, and determining which persons are workers and subtracting the workers from the still count to identify customers in the monitored area and obtain a customer count. The method further includes identifying the number of queues present in the monitored area, assigning each customer to a queue, and determining the wait time for each of the identified customers in each of the identified queues.
US10943202B2	System and method to simulate the impact of leadership activity A system and method to simulate the impact of leadership activity for individuals in leader and/or manager roles to be able to model their organization as a system and to simulate a plurality of actions that might be taken and their impact on the non-linear dynamics of the organization, its functions, capabilities, processes and outcomes. The system includes an Organization State component, a Leadership Activities component, an Environment State component, and a Simulation Module component. The Simulation Module component takes in initial conditions defined for the Organization State, Leadership Activities and the Environment State, iterates the functions and process of the organization through time, simulates the interactions of the various variables described in the Organization State, the Leadership Activities and the Environment State and the interactive effects among them and provides outputs of a plurality of measures for each time step.
US10943196B2	Data reconciliation Data from multiple sources may be gathered continuously to perform reconciliation operations. The data items in a first data set may be matched with those in the second data set using a data matching technique. Based on the matching, a confidence score indicative of an extent of match between the data items in the data sets may be generated. Based on the confidence score and predefined thresholds, it may be ascertained if the data items are reconciled. The non-reconciled items in at least one of the first data set and the second data set may be classified in a classification category, based on an artificial intelligence based technique, the classification category being indicative of an explanation of a non-reconciled data item being non-reconcilable. When the data item is not reconciled and classified, the data item is identified as an open item for further analysis.
US10943192B2	Method and system for displaying work assignment status information in connection with work to be performed on a component of a linear asset infrastructure The invention provides a graphical user interface implemented on a computer including an information area for displaying to a user at the computer inspection status information in connection with one or more components of a linear asset infrastructure. The graphical user interface also includes a control component operable by the user at the computer to cause the graphical user interface to display additional information on the one or more components of the linear asset infrastructure.
US10943188B2	Virtual queuing techniques The virtual queue system includes a virtual queue controller comprising a processor and a memory, wherein the memory stores instructions executable by the processor and is configured to receive a request, the request being associated with an individual guest, for a position in a virtual queue of an attraction, assign the individual guest to the position in the virtual queue in response to the request, receive ride schedule data for the attraction comprising information about a change in status of individual rides of the attraction, and determine a wait time for the individual guest for the attraction based at least on the position of the individual guest in the virtual queue, the ride schedule data, and historical guest throughput at the attraction. The virtual queue system is further configured to output a signal to a guest-associated device indicating the wait time for the attraction.
US10943182B2	Cognitive screening of EOR additives A machine learning process is performed using one or more sources of information for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) materials to be used for an EOR process on a defined oil reservoir. Performance of the machine learning process produces an output comprising an indication of one or more EOR materials and their corresponding concentrations to be used in the EOR process. The indication of the one or more EOR materials and their corresponding concentrations is output to be used in the EOR process. Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are disclosed.
US10943173B2	Computer-implemented methods, computer readable medium and systems for generating a satellite data model for a precision agriculture platform A computer platform implements a precision agriculture system that predicts output conditions, such as diseases, salt damage, soil problems, water leaks and generic anomalies, for orchards under analysis. The computer platform stores site and crop datasets and processed satellite image for the orchards. An orchard data learned model predicts a propensity for existence of output conditions associated with the permanent crops based on the data values for the variables of the site and crop datasets. Also, a satellite model predicts a propensity for existence of the output conditions at the orchard based on processed satellite images. A precision agriculture management model is disclosed that integrates the orchard data learned model with the satellite model to accurately predict the output conditions.
US10943172B1	Real-time predictive knowledge pattern machine The disclosure below describes a knowledge pattern machine that goes beyond and is distinct from a traditional search engine as simple information aggregator. Rather than acting as a search engine of the data itself, the knowledge pattern machine use variously layers of artificial intelligence to discover correlations within the queries and historical data, and to derive and recognize data patterns based on user queries for predictively generating new knowledge items or reports that are of interest to the user. Previous patterns and knowledge items or reports are accumulated and incorporated in identification of new data patterns and new predictive knowledge items or reports in response to future user queries, thus providing a stateful machine. The predictive knowledge items are updated in real-time without user interference as the underlying data sources evolve overtime. The data patterns and knowledge items are organized hierarchically and may be shared among different users at various levels. This disclosure thus provides a pattern recognition machine with predictive analytics for enabling users to conduct research and to obtain and share unique real-time predictive data report based on intelligently processing user input queries.
US10943168B2	System and method for determining an artificial intelligence model in a decentralized network A system may include a decentralized communication network and multiple processing devices on the network. Each processing device may have an artificial intelligence (AI) chip, the device may be configured to generate an AI model, determine the performance value of the AI model on the AI chip, receive a chain from the network where the chain contains a performance measure. If the performance value of the AI model is better than the performance measure, then the processing device may broadcast the AI model to the network for verification. If the AI model is verified by the network, the device may update the chain with the performance value so that the chain can be shared by the multiple processing devices on the network. Any processing device on the network may also verify an AI model broadcasted by any other device. Methods for generating the AI model are also provided.
US10943164B2	Spoolable small-form-factor RFID-enabled wristband Spoolable RFID-enabled wristbands with maximized read range. In an embodiment, a wristband comprises flexible material formed into a flag portion and a strap portion. The flag portion comprises a radio-frequency identification (RFID) inlay embedded within the material. The strap portion extends from the flag portion, and is perforated in a line along a longitudinal axis of the wristband from a distal end of the strap portion that is distal to the flag portion to a hole at a proximal end of the strap portion that is proximal to the flag portion, such that the strap portion may be torn, from the distal end to the hole at the proximal end, along the perforated line, into two sections of substantially equal dimension, which each extend from the flag portion.
US10943160B2	Dynamic graphic code implementation method and apparatus The specification discloses a dynamic graphic code implementation method and apparatus. The method includes: invoking a distance sensor to detect a distance between a device and a blocking object when displaying a graphic code; and if the distance is within a preset distance range, stopping refreshing the graphic code.
US10943153B2	Ultrasound analytics for actionable information Systems and techniques are described for gathering information on the health of individuals trapped in an accident to provide actionable information to a first responder system. In some implementations, a monitoring system monitors a property that includes sensors located at the property and generate first sensor data. A monitor control unit receives the first sensor data and generates an alarm event for the property based on the first sensor data. Based on generating the alarm event for the property, the monitor control unit dispatches an autonomous drone. The autonomous drone is configured to navigate the property. Using an onboard sensor, the autonomous drone generates second sensor data. Based on the second sensor data, the autonomous drone determines a location within the property where a person is likely located. The autonomous drone provides, for output, data indicating the location within the property where the person is likely located.
US10943151B2	Systems and methods for training and validating a computer vision model for geospatial imagery An exemplary geospatial image processing system generates, based on multiple detections of an object of interest detected by a computer vision model in multiple, correlated images of a geospatial location captured from different camera viewpoints, user interface content that includes a visual indication of the detected object of interest superimposed at an object position on a view of the geospatial location. The system provides the user interface content for display in a graphical user interface view of a user interface and provides, by way of the user interface, a user interface tool configured to facilitate user validation of one or more of the multiple detections of the object of interest. The system may receive, a user validation of one or more of the multiple detections of the object of interest and may train the computer vision model based on the user validation. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
US10943148B2	Inspection neural network for assessing neural network reliability A system employs an inspection neural network (INN) to inspect data generated during an inference process of a primary neural network (PNN) to generate an indication of reliability for an output generated by the PNN. The system includes a sensor configured to capture sensor data. Sensor data captured by the sensor is provided to a data analyzer to generate an output using the PNN. An analyzer inspector is configured to capture inspection data associated with the generation of the output by the data analyzer, and use the INN to generate an indication of reliability for the PNN's output based on the inspection data. The INN is trained using a set of training data that is distinct from the training data used to train the PNN.
US10943145B2	Image processing methods and apparatus, and electronic devices Image processing methods, apparatuses, and electronic devices include: extracting features of an image to be processed to obtain a first feature map of the image; generating an attention map of the image based on the first feature map; fusing the attention map and the first feature map to obtain a fusion map; and extracting the features of the image again based on the fusion map. The implementation mode introduces an attention mechanism into image processing, and effectively improves the efficiency of acquiring information from an image.
US10943142B2	Removal of masking structures in images for the detection of anomalies A method includes obtaining a first image of a patient procured during an X-ray, analyzing the first image for one or more unmasked anomalies, shifting the first image to provide a shifted image, obtaining a residual image comprising a combination of the first image and the shifted image, and analyzing the residual image for one or more masked anomalies, where the one or more masked anomalies include anomalies that went undetected in the analysis of the first image for the one or more unmasked anomalies due to a presence of one or more masking features in the first image.
US10943141B2	Object detection device and object detection method An image feature map generating unit (3) generates, on the basis of feature amounts extracted from a plurality of images successively captured by a camera (109), an image feature map which is an estimated distribution of the object likelihood on each of the images. An object detecting unit (4) detects an object on the basis of the image feature map generated by the image feature map generating unit (3).
US10943134B2	Bulb disambiguation for traffic lights disposed within a region of interest A disambiguation system for an autonomous vehicle is described herein that disambiguates a traffic light framed by a plurality of regions of interest. The autonomous vehicle includes a localization system that defines the plurality of regions of interest around traffic lights captured in a sensor signal and provides an input to a disambiguation system. When the captured traffic lights are in close proximity, the plurality of regions of interest overlap each other such that a traffic light disposed in the overlapping region is ambiguous to an object detector because it is framed by more than one region of interest. A disambiguation system associates the traffic light with the correct region of interest to disambiguate a relationship thereof and generates a disambiguated directive for controlling the autonomous vehicle. Disambiguation can be achieved according to any of an edge-based technique, a vertex-based technique, and a region of interest distance-based technique.
US10943125B1	Predicting highlights for media content In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a first video; predicting a first noteworthy portion for the first video, wherein the first noteworthy portion is a portion of the first video that is predicted based on user-engagement information associated with the portion of the first video; extracting a first highlight from the first video, wherein the first highlight corresponds to the first noteworthy portion; and sending, to a client system of a user, information configured to render the first highlight and a first interactive element that is configured to launch the first video on the client system.
US10943122B2	Focalized behavioral measurements in a video stream A system and method for analyzing behavior in a video is described. The method includes extracting a plurality of salient fragments of a video; generating a focalized visualization, based on a time anchor, from one or more of the plurality of salient fragments of the video; tagging a human subject in the focalized visualization with a unique identifier; and analyzing behavior of the human subject, using the focalized visualization, to generate a behavior score associated with the unique identifier and the time anchor.
US10943119B2	Apparatus and method for performing viewer gaze analysis A system and a method for performing viewer gaze analysis are provided. The method includes detecting at least one item worn by a user of a wearable computing device, detecting at least one gaze of a viewer towards the at least one item worn by the user, and providing at least one recommendation for the user based on the at least one gaze.
US10943115B2	Processing image data to perform object detection Examples of the present disclosure relate to methods for performing object detection. In one such example, data representing an image is received. The image comprises at least one target region and a further region. The at least one target region is identifiable using data indicative of a gaze direction of a viewer of the image. A first portion of the data is processed using a first processing scheme to perform object detection in the at least one target region of the image. The first portion of the data represents the at least one target region of the image. A second portion of the data is processed using a second, different, processing scheme. The second portion of the data represents the further region of the image.
US10943099B2	Method and system for classifying an input data set using multiple data representation source modes A computer-implemented method for classifying an input data set within a data category using multiple data representation modes. The method includes identifying at least a first data representation source mode and a second data representation source mode; classifying the at least first data representation source mode via at least a first data recognition tool and the at least second data representation source mode via at least a second data recognition tool, the classifying including allocating a confidence factor for each data representation source mode in the data category; and combining outputs of the classifying into a single output confidence score by using a weighted fusion of the allocated confidence factors.
US10943098B2	Automated and unsupervised curation of image datasets Techniques for dataset processing are provided. A plurality of feature vectors is generated for a plurality of pixel regions from a plurality of images, and a plurality of clusters is generated based on the plurality of feature vectors. A score is assigned to each respective pixel region in the plurality of pixel regions based at least in part on a cluster the respective pixel region is associated with. A unified dataset is created by, for each respective cluster in the plurality of clusters, computing a representative index for each pixel region in the respective cluster by comparing the pixel regions in the cluster, and modifying the score of the pixel regions in the cluster based on the computed representative indices. A confidence index is generated for the unified dataset based at least in part on a level of fragmentation in the unified dataset.
US10943080B2	Fingerprint sensing device with ESD protection In accordance with a first aspect of the present disclosure, a fingerprint sensing device is provided, comprising a plurality of sensor cells, wherein each sensor cell comprises: at least one sense plate and a discharge electrode insulated from the sense plate; a first discharge path for discharging a first static electricity charge to a first electric potential terminal; a second discharge path for discharging a second static electricity charge to a second electric potential terminal; a charge reservoir coupled between the first electric potential terminal and the second electric potential terminal. In accordance with a second aspect of the present disclosure, a corresponding method of producing a fingerprint sensing device is conceived.
US10943073B2	Dynamic candidate expectation prediction A computer system may receive a first set of bundled information. The computer system may have a processor and a memory storing one or more natural language processing modules. The computer system, using a natural language processing module, may ingest the first set of bundled information. The computer system may generate a first set and a second set of categories. The computer system may generate one or more models. The computer system may receive a set of input characteristics. The computer system may select a model based on the input characteristics. The computer system may rank one or more correlations using the selected model. The computer system may output a display of the one or more correlations on a graphical user interface.
US10943072B1	Contextual and intent based natural language processing system and method Methods and systems are disclosed for an artificial intelligence (AI)-based, conversational insight and action platform for user context and intent-based natural language processing and data insight generation. Using artificial intelligence and semantic analysis techniques, a knowledge graph is generated from structured data, and a word embedding is generated from unstructured data. A semantic meaning is extracted from a user request, and at least one user attribute and context are determined. One or more entities and relationships on the knowledge graph that match the semantic meaning are determined, based on the user attribute, context, and the word embedding. A sequence of analytical instructions is generated from the matching results, and applied to the structured data to generate a data insight response to the user request. If no matches are found, similar entities and relationships are presented to the user, and user selections are used to further train the system.
US10943071B2	Statistical preparation of data using semantic clustering Performing an operation comprising analyzing an electronic text corpus by a natural language processing (NLP) algorithm executing on a processor to determine a set of target terms specified in the electronic text corpus, analyzing the electronic text corpus by the NLP algorithm to determine a weight for each pair of terms in the set of target terms, and storing an indication of each pair of terms and the respective weight in a lookup table in a computer memory for runtime analysis of an input text data.
US10943065B2	Systems and methods for rendering data based on fixed-length templating Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can receive a plurality of web templates associated with a web page. A buffer having a fixed, pre-determined length is allocated. A first set of data associated with a first web template of the plurality of web templates is copied to the buffer. A second set of data associated with a second web template of the plurality of web templates is copied to the buffer.
US10943063B1	Apparatus and method to automate website user interface navigation An apparatus has a processor and a memory connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions executed by the processor to store identity attributes including real identity attributes for a real individual and a digital identity with digital identity data attributes operative as a personal privacy proxy for the real individual. Web site input forms are automatically filled alternately using the real identity attributes and the digital identity attributes.
US10943059B2	Document editing models and management A mechanism and model by which to manage inadvertent edits of electronic content. The model determines the likelihood of whether a modification made to a document is intentional or was inadvertent and assist users in identifying these edits. The proposed devices and method can significantly improve workflow efficiency and allow users to feel more comfortable in the development and use of their electronic content, and/or reduce the possibility of other users causing accidental or unintentional errors in a document.
US10943051B1	Metal fill shape removal from selected nets Methods, systems and computer program products for improved metal fill shape removal from selected nets are provided. Aspects include determining a first set and second set of timing characteristics of a first and second circuit design, respectively. The first circuit design does not include metal fill shapes around a plurality of nets, whereas the second circuit design does include metal fill shapes around a plurality of nets. Aspects also include identifying a set of candidate nets based on a comparison of the first set of timing characteristics to the second set of timing characteristics. The set of candidate nets are nets that are candidates for metal fill shape removal. Aspects include generating a third circuit design by removing one or more metal fill shapes positioned around each net of the set of candidate nets that are positioned within a radius of removal.
US10943050B2	Capacitive isolation structure insert for reversed signals A method of making an integrated circuit includes operations to identify reverse signal nets of the circuit layout, determine when the conductive lines to the reverse signal net have parasitic capacitance, and determine how to adjust an integrated circuit layout to reduce the parasitic capacitance of the conductive lines to the reverse signal net. The method further includes an operation to determine whether to move one of the conductive lines in the integrated circuit layout, and an operation to determine whether to insert an isolation structure between the conductive lines of the reverse signal net having parasitic capacitance.
US10943049B2	Rule check violation prediction systems and methods Systems and methods are provided for predicting systematic design rule check (DRC) violations in a placement layout before routing is performed on the placement layout. A systematic DRC violation prediction system includes DRC violation prediction circuitry. The DRC violation prediction circuitry receives placement data associated with a placement layout. The DRC violation prediction circuitry inspects the placement data associated with the placement layout, and the placement data may include data associated with a plurality of regions of the placement layout, which may be inspected on a region-by-region basis. The DRC violation prediction circuitry predicts whether one or more systematic DRC violations would be present in the placement layout due to a subsequent routing of the placement layout.
US10943043B1	Multiple output constrained input lookup table generation Examples described herein provide a method for optimizing a netlist for an integrated circuit device. The method generally includes receiving a netlist comprising a first lookup table, and upstream logic, wherein the upstream logic receives a plurality of input signals and comprises at least one output connected as at least one input to the first lookup table, wherein the first lookup table comprises an unused input and multiple outputs; mapping the plurality of input signals directly to the at least one input and the unused input of the first lookup table; validating the mapping by monitoring the multiple outputs of the first lookup table; and upon a successful validation, optimizing the netlist by removing the upstream logic and reconnecting the plurality of input signals to the at least one input and the unused input of the first lookup table.
US10943034B2	Method of wireless determination of a position of a node Methods and apparatus for verifying respective positions of Nodes based upon wireless communications between Nodes included in an array. Values for variables derived from multiple wireless transmissions between Nodes are aggregated, and a position of a particular Node may be determined based upon multiple data sets generated by multiple communications between disparate Nodes. In addition, the presence of an obstacle to wireless communication between some Nodes may be derived from the data sets. A user interface may provide a pictorial view of positions of all or some Nodes in an array, as well as a perceived obstruction.
US10943032B2	Data encryption and decryption techniques Techniques for processing I/O operations may include performing DMA (direct memory access) operations between a data storage system, one or more physical storage devices, and a hardware component that communicate over at least one bus using a DMA-based protocol, such as NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express). The hardware device may perform encryption and decryption processing of data that is, respectively, stored to, and read from, physical non-volatile storage. The hardware device may optionally perform other processing for other data-related operations such as any of data validation and integrity checking, data deduplication, data compression, and data decompression. When performing DMA transfers, multiple descriptors, such as SGLs (scatter gather lists) or PRPs (physical region pages), for multiple data portions having logically contiguous consecutive logical addresses may be combined into a single descriptor sent in a single DMA operation.
US10943030B2	Securable independent electronic document In accordance with embodiments within, a securable independent electronic document apparatus is taught. With an authenticable and tamper detectable electronic container, elements and sections supporting platform, vendor and authentication independence, data sections and elements supporting, if user desired, digital signatures, data automation and nested embedding, graphical image data, and/or other types of data elements and sections supporting perceptual integrity and authenticity verification, and/or other free formatted data elements and sections supporting a plurality of types of data processing operations, and, if user desired, imaging representation comprised within a container using a securable and independent system. The securable independent electronic document apparatus presents solutions for the personal unique and interwoven creation and enhancement of user and document security and confidence in electronic data information's digital distribution, commerce, trade, publishing and/or exchange.
US10943005B2	Secure authentication of devices for internet of things A computer-implemented system and method for secure authentication of IoT devices are disclosed. The method for secure authentication of IoT devices comprises establishing a network connection with a network operator server via a control channel, establishing identity of the network operator server using a pre-shared server key, establishing identity of the IoT device using a pre-shared client key and cryptographically generating a session key for a network session to allow secure data exchange between the network operator server and the IoT device. The cryptographically generated session key is used for securely authenticating application running on the authenticated IoT device.
US10942998B2	Using gas chromatography for authentication, advertisements, and therapies In one aspect, a device includes a processor and storage accessible to the processor. The storage bears instructions executable by the processor to receive at least one output of a gas chromatograph (GC), compare the at least one output to at least one template, and determine whether to authenticate a user responsive to the comparison. The GC output also may be used to generate at least one advertisement targeted to the user, and may further be used to output at least one indication of at least one therapy for the user.
US10942995B2	Method for obtaining biometric information using light source corresponding to biometric information and electronic device thereof An apparatus and method for obtaining biometric information in an electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a display comprising one or more pixels, the one or more pixels including a first sub pixel, a second sub pixel, and a third sub pixel, and one or more sensors configured to obtain biometric information about an external object, and a processor. The processor is configured to cause the electronic device to: identify first biometric information and second biometric information from the biometric information, and output light having first properties through a first pixel set corresponding to the first biometric information, and obtain the first biometric information using the one or more sensors, and output light having second properties through a second pixel set corresponding to the second biometric information, and obtain the second biometric information using the one or more sensors.
US10942987B1	Healthcare claim data recreation for support and analysis Enhanced methods for providing software support and resolving software support issues are provided, particularly those related to an entity, including a specific entity in a database. A method selects an entity, such as a healthcare claim or other entity in a database, for which there is a software issue. The method then identifies all data and relationships relevant to that entity, including all related tables and data for that entity. The specific entity, data, and relationships are then exported. This method provides better, more efficient, and enhanced software support by exporting not only the identified entity, but all other relevant data and relationships to that entity, for analysis in resolving any software support issues.
US10942979B2	Collaborative creation of content snippets Systems and methods for collaborative creation of content snippets are disclosed. In embodiments, a method of the invention includes: receiving, by a computing device, indications from multiple users over time that content is of value, wherein the indications are in the form of computer-based actions from multiple user devices monitored by the computing device; dynamically generating, by the computing device, a collaborative snippet based on the indications from the multiple users, wherein the collaborative snippet is auto-tagged by the computing device with context data such that the collaborative snippet includes one or more tags; and saving, by the computing device, the collaborative snippet in a snippet database.
US10942978B1	Systems and methods for creating interactive metadata elements in social media compositions Systems and methods for creating digital interactive metadata elements in a social media composition may include (1) providing, to a user of a social media application, a composition interface for creating digital social media compositions, (2) collecting, via the composition interface, user-generated content and metadata information, (3) creating, based on the user-generated content and the metadata information, a social media composition that includes the user-generated content and an interactive metadata item, and (4) posting the social media composition to a consumption channel (e.g., a newsfeed channel and/or a stories channel) of a social-networking platform associated with the social media application. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also described.
US10942975B2	Search engine for sensors Various implementations disclosed herein provide a search engine that receives a search request from a sensor gateway, and provides search results in return. In various implementations, the search request includes a first set of measurements captured by a first sensor, a first measurement from the first set of measurements is outside a defined range. In various implementations, the search engine determines a first feature vector based on the first set of measurements, and identifies a second feature vector that indicates a second set of measurements within a degree of similarity to the first set of measurements. In some implementations, the second set of measurements are captured by a second sensor. In various implementations, the search engine determines a search result based on the second feature vector, and transmits the search result. In some implementations, the search result indicates one or more instructions executable by the first sensor.
US10942971B2	Inserting elements into artificial intelligence content Technologies are described herein for injecting elements into artificial intelligence content. According to some examples, content generated from an artificial intelligence source is received, facts are determined from the content, and terms are selected for use based on the facts. The terms are used to modify or are added to the content to generate modified artificial intelligence content.
US10942965B2	Information processing apparatus and information processing method A pathological image and a primary diagnosis result are obtained from a first terminal via a network, the first terminal being of a first user, the primary diagnosis result being a diagnosis result about the pathological image by the first user. The obtained pathological image and the primary diagnosis result are provided to at least one second terminal via the network, the one second terminal being of at least one second user. A browsing history and an opinion of the second user are obtained from the second terminal via the network, the browsing history at least including information on a displayed area in the pathological image, the opinion of the second user being about the primary diagnosis result based on observation of the pathological image by the second user. The obtained browsing history is estimated, and a reliability score of the obtained opinion is generated.
US10942953B2	Generating summaries and insights from meeting recordings One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for generating a summary of a recording. The technique includes generating an index associated with the recording, wherein the index identifies a set of terms included in the recording and, for each term in the set of terms, a corresponding location of the term in the recording. The technique also includes determining categories of predefined terms to be identified in the index and identifying a first subset of the terms in the index that match a first portion of the predefined terms in the categories. The technique further includes outputting a summary of the recording comprising the locations of the first subset of terms in the recording and listings of the first subset of terms under one or more corresponding categories.
US10942952B1	Graph analysis of geo-temporal information Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media may be configured to provide graph analysis of geo-temporal information. A location dataset, an entity dataset, and a movement dataset may be accessed. The location dataset may define locations. The entity dataset may define entities. The movement dataset may define movement of the entities among the locations. A graph may be generated based on the location dataset, the entity dataset, and the movement dataset. The graph may represent (1) the locations and the entities with nodes, and (2) the movement of the entities among the locations with edges.
US10942951B2	Focus operations for regions in geographical hierarchies Some embodiments provide a program that provides a view of a map that includes a geometry representing a geographical region belonging to a first level in a plurality of levels of a geographical hierarchy. The program further receives a request to focus on a geometry representing a geographical region belonging to a first level in the plurality of levels. The program further provides, in the view of the map, a subset of a set of geometries representing a set of geographical regions belonging to the second level in the plurality of levels of the geographical hierarchy. The program also provide, in the view of the map, a point for each record in the dataset having a spatial point in the location field that falls within the geometry representing the geographical region belonging to the first level in the plurality of levels.
US10942949B2	Data processing method and apparatus for virtual resource Aspects of the disclosure provide a data processing apparatus having interface circuitry and processing circuitry. The interface circuitry is configured to obtain data related to at least two resource accounts, and related to resource transfer of the at least two resource account. The processing circuitry configured to construct resource transfer relationships of the at least two resource accounts according to the data, calculate, based on the resource transfer relationships, similarity measurements between the at least two resource accounts according to a preset calculation rule, and output, according to the calculated similarity measurements, a resource account with a similarity measurement satisfying a preset condition.
US10942948B2	Cloud-based pluggable classification system Example embodiments for classification are described. In an example embodiment, a request including a text term to be classified is received from a source system via a communication network at a computer system. A rule associated with the text term is accessed, in which the rule indicates at least one classifier of a plurality of classifiers installed at the computer system. Classification information for the text term is generated at the computer system using the at least one classifier indicated by the rule. The generated classification information includes a classification selected from a taxonomy by the at least one classifier. The generated classification information is transmitted via the communication network to the source system.
US10942945B2	Isolated hierarchical runtime environments for multi-tenant databases Techniques are described herein for isolating runtime environments in a multitenant container DBMS. A CDB may contain a database dictionary that defines a plurality of pluggable databases and a respective database nest for each pluggable database. Each respective database nest of said each pluggable database is associated with different operating system privileges. When database sessions are established on a container DBMS, each database session is given access to a pluggable database by attaching the respective database nest of the pluggable database to each database session.
US10942937B2	Data mining systems Systems and methods for improving data mining systems are described. In one embodiment, the systems and methods may include a storage drive and a hardware controller. In some embodiments, the hardware controller may be configured to detect a first event in the storage system, identify data associated with the first event, parse the data according to a logging protocol, and store the parsed data in a database.
US10942936B1	Signal detection and visualization using point-in-time architecture databases Systems and methods are provided for using point-in-time architecture (PTA) databases. An exemplary method includes: organizing first data, received from a first data source, in a first PTA database; organizing second data, received from a second data source, in the first PTA database or a second PTA database; receiving a first instruction to process the first data and the second data using a first statistical operation; receiving a first instruction to process the first data and the second data using a first statistical operation; executing the first statistical operation for the first data and the second data; receiving a second instruction to process the first data and the second data using a second statistical operation; receiving a second instruction to process the first data and the second data using a second statistical operation; and executing the second statistical operation for the first data and the second data.
US10942935B2	Entity data attribution using disparate data sets Systems and methods for using disparate data sets to attribute data to an entity are disclosed. Disparate data sets can be obtained from a variety of data sources. The disclosed systems and methods can obtain a first and second data set. Trajectories can represent multiple data records in a data set associated with an entity. Trajectories from the obtained data sets can be used to associate data stored among the various data sets. The association can be based on the agreement between the trajectories. The associated data records can further be used to associate the entities related to the associated data records.
US10942934B2	Non-transitory computer-readable recording medium, encoded data searching method, and encoded data searching apparatus A data searching apparatus receives a searching character string with respect to an encoding document; referring to relevant information in which encoded data of a word according to an encoding rule of the encoding document is associated with a basic form of the word and a relevant word relevant to the basic form, with respect to a plurality of words, acquires a plurality of codes relevant to the basic form of the searching character string and a relevant word of the basic form and searches the encoding document by using an automaton in which the plurality of codes are set in a searching target.
US10942922B2	Generation of data flow from syntax tree A computerized mechanism to formulate a data flow representation from a syntax tree. The syntax tree may be, for instance, an abstract syntax tree (AST) that is formulated by compiling query script, such as big data query script. Each node in the syntax tree is composed of one or more tokens (script portions) that are taken from the query script, which relationships between the tokens being syntactically represented by links between those tokens. Accordingly, the data flow representation may also be a data flow representation of the original query script itself. In order to formulate the data flow representation from the syntax tree, the data types of the various inputs and outputs of the syntax tree nodes are identified and bound to a corresponding data flow. This may be performed whilst honoring dependencies between the nodes. The data flow may be visualized to an author or reviewer of the script.
US10942921B2	Blockchain-based data storage and query method and device A blockchain node receives a service request, where the service request comprises one or more data types and respective service data corresponding to the one or more data types that are stored in a blockchain. At least one of a service type or identification information is determined corresponding to the service request. The service request is parsed to obtain each data type of the service request and service data corresponding to each data type. Based on a mapping relationship between a data type and service data, the service data that is obtained through parsing in a relational database corresponding to the blockchain node is stored.
US10942919B2	Generating further knowledge to process query A method includes obtaining an initial answer entigen group from a knowledge database based on a query entigen group of a query. The method further includes determining that a reliable and definitive answer for the query is not obtainable from the initial answer entigen group. When an incomplete answer entigen is a cause for the inability to obtain the reliable and definitive answer, the method further includes determining a missing element, obtaining data regarding the missing element, updating the incomplete answer entigen with the data to produce an updated answer entigen, and updating the initial answer entigen group with the updated answer entigen to produce an updated answer entigen group. When the updated answer entigen group produces the reliable and definitive answer, the method further includes outputting the reliable and definitive answer.
US10942910B1	Journal queries of a ledger-based database A database management system stores data for a table as a journal of transaction. The records of the journal comprise information indicative of changes applied to a document of the table. The database receives a query on a table of transactions performed on the table. In response to the query on the table of transactions, the database generates results by retrieving and projecting the records of the journal in accordance with the query. The results of the query are indicative of changes applied to the document of the table.
US10942902B2	Efficient database migration using an intermediary secondary storage system A portion of contents of a database is received from a first server. The received contents of the database is stored in a secondary storage system that tracks changes between different backup versions of contents of the database. A request to migrate the contents of the database to a second server is received. A version of contents of the database is provided to the second server using the secondary storage system. The secondary storage system is configured to determine an amount of changes to the database content from one of the versions of the database content provided to the second server and the amount of changes is utilized in determining whether to quiesce the database hosted on the first server.
US10942901B2	Generating broadcast log with paired advertisement and primary programming item In a media automation system, a database server transmits a request to a traffic and billing system to identify both an advertisement for potential inclusion in a content block, and a first primary programming item to be scheduled adjacent to the advertisement in a broadcast log, i.e. a paired advertisement and primary programming item, and receives a message identifying the advertisement and the first primary programming item from the traffic and billing system in response to that request. The database server responds to the message from the traffic and billing system by inserting the advertisement into the broadcast log adjacent to the first primary programming item, transmitting a signal notifying the traffic and billing system that the advertisement and the first primary programming item have been inserted into the broadcast log, and delivering the broadcast log to a media server.
US10942893B2	Systems and methods for a specialized computer file system A specialized computer file system for self-managing data storage resources provided as a service to remotely executed applications. The system includes a data storage device configured to store a plurality of data files in a non-relational data store. A storage server is configured to upload a data file to the data storage device to be stored with the plurality of data files. The storage server generate a file link associated with the data file. The storage server transmit the file link to the client application, wherein the client application transmits the file link to an end user. A maintenance server is configured to execute an erase operation to autonomously erase the at least one data file from the data storage device after the data file has been stored in the data storage device for a specified duration of time.
US10942890B2	Bit string accumulation in memory array periphery Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to bit string accumulation in memory array periphery are described. Control circuitry (e.g., a processing device) may be utilized to control performance of operations using bit strings within a memory device. Results of the operations may be accumulated in circuitry peripheral to a memory array of the memory device. For instance, a method for bit string accumulation in memory array periphery can include retrieving a bit string stored in a data structure of a memory array. The bit string can represent a result of performance of an arithmetic operation or a logical operation. The method can further include storing the bit string in a plurality of sense amplifiers located in a periphery of the memory array and using the bit string as an operand in performance of at least a portion of a recursive operation.
US10942887B2	Electronic device configured to control non-directly connected storage device among serially connected storage devices, storage device included therein, computing system including the same, and operation method of controller of storage device A device includes a first input/output (I/O) port for communication with an external processor, a second I/O port for communication with a second device, and an interface adaptor supporting communication through the first and second I/O ports via a protocol having a plurality of layers, including an application layer, a physical layer, and a physical adaptor layer. The application layer processes information according to an application layer format and the physical adaptor layer processes information according to a physical adaptor layer format. The device receives from the external processor through the first I/O port a request in the application layer format that one or more communication conditions be set for a physical layer of the second device, converts the request from the application layer format to the physical adaptor layer format, and sends the converted request in the physical adaptor layer format to the second device through the second I/O port.
US10942884B2	Dual-edge triggered ring buffer and communication system The present disclosure provides a dual-edge triggered ring buffer and a communication system. The dual-edge triggered ring buffer includes a logic clock generation module and a data writing module. The logic clock generation module is configured to generate a corresponding first logic clock signal upon detecting an input of the trigger signal corresponding to the multiple first trigger signal input terminals, or to generate a corresponding second logic clock signal upon detecting an input of the trigger signal corresponding to the multiple second trigger signal input terminals. The data writing module is configured to write data output from the external system through the multiple corresponding input terminals according to the first logic clock signal or the second logic clock signal.
US10942876B1	Hardware engine for configuration register setup One embodiment includes a computing device including peripheral component bus interfaces for connection to a peripheral component bus, a first integrated circuit (IC) chip comprising a processor to initiate a register setup process of the device, a second IC chip including a tile processor including multiple tiles, each tile including at least a processing core configured to generate requests to at least one of the peripheral component bus interfaces, steering configuration registers to store steering configuration data, and steering logic to steer the generated requests responsively to the steering configuration data in the steering configuration registers, and steering register setup circuitry including a multicaster and a register setup memory, wherein the processor is configured to write the steering configuration data to the register setup memory, and the multicaster is configured to multicast the steering configuration data written to the register setup memory to the steering configuration registers of the tiles.
US10942874B2	Methods and systems that manage fetching of commands by a controller from queues of a host A method and system for managing command fetches by an Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe) controller from a plurality of queues in a host maintains a predefined ratio of data throughput, based on the command fetches, between the plurality of queues. Each of the plurality of queues is assigned with a particular priority and weight.
US10942872B2	Peripheral device, communication system, central control device, communication method, and recording medium recording communication program A peripheral device communicates with a central control device. The peripheral device includes a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to acquire, from another peripheral device, first information including a topic provided for the central control device or a user of the central control device, integrate the first information with second information which is included in the peripheral device and includes a topic provided for the central control device or the user of the central control device, to generate third information, and transmit the third information.
US10942870B1	Circuitry and method Circuitry comprises memory access control circuitry responsive to initiation of a memory access transaction relating to a given memory address, the memory access transaction being initiated in an access mode selected from at least a higher access mode and a lower access mode, the higher access mode having a higher access level than the lower access mode such that memory access transactions in the lower access mode are inhibited from accessing at least some processing resources associated with memory access transactions in the higher access mode, the memory access control circuitry comprising: circuitry to access permission data associated with candidate memory addresses to be accessed; detector circuitry to detect, for a memory access transaction initiated in the lower access mode, whether the permission data associated with the given memory address indicates an upgraded access mode; and transaction modifier circuitry to associate with the memory access transaction an indication that the memory access transaction may proceed in the higher access mode, when the detector circuitry detects that the permission data associated with the given memory address indicates an upgraded access mode.
US10942868B2	Execution process of binary code of function secured by microprocessor A method including the loading into registers of a microprocessor of a code line recorded at an address @j, and then calculating, with a securing hardware module, an initialization vector with the aid of a relation ivj=Fjv(@j), where @j is the address from which the code line was loaded, and then decrypting, with the securing hardware module, the code line loaded with the aid of the initialization vector calculated to obtain: a datum Dj of its cryptogram, and a first error-detecting code, and then verifying, with the securing hardware module and with the aid of the first error-detecting code obtained, whether there exists an error in the datum Dj or its cryptogram and, if such an error exists, triggering the signalling of an execution fault and, if such an error does not exist, inhibiting this signalling of an execution fault.
US10942861B2	Configurable logic block networks and managing coherent memory in the same Apparatuses and methods for managing a coherent memory are described. These may include one or more algorithmic logic units (ALUs) and an input/output (IO) interface. The I/O interface may receive one or more commands and retrieve data from or write data to a memory device. Each command may contain a memory address portion associated with a memory device. The apparatus may also include a memory mapping unit and a device controller. The memory mapping unit may map the memory address to a memory portion of the memory device, and the device controller may communicate with the memory device to retrieve data from or write data to the memory device. The apparatus may be implemented as a processing element in a configurable logic block network, which may additionally include a control logic unit that receives programming instructions from an application and generate the one or more commands based on the instructions.
US10942853B2	System and method including broadcasting an address translation invalidation instruction with a return marker to indentify the location of data in a computing system having mutiple processors A method, computer program product, and computer system are disclosed that in one or more embodiments includes issuing, from an issuing processor in the computer system, an address translation invalidation instruction with a return marker, wherein the address translation invalidation instruction is to invalidate one or more address translation entries in one or more storage locations in the computer system and wherein the return marker comprises an instruction to return information to the issuing processor indicating the identity of each processor where an invalidated entry was located. The method, product, and system in an embodiment further includes broadcasting the address translation invalidation instruction with the return marker to one or more storage locations of one or more of the processors in the computer system other than the issuing processor; invalidating the address translation entry corresponding to the broadcasted address translation invalidation instruction; and returning to the issuing processor information on each storage location corresponding to the invalidated address translation entry. In one or more embodiments, the returned information is used to determine the performance of the computing system, identifying the storage locations where data was located.
US10942850B2	Performance telemetry aided processing scheme A processing system can include a plurality of processing clusters. Each processing cluster can include a plurality of processor cores and a last level cache. Each processor core can include one or more dedicated caches and a plurality of counters. The plurality of counters may be configured to count different types of cache fills. The plurality of counters may be configured to count different types of cache fills, including at least one counter configured to count total cache fills and at least one counter configured to count off-cluster cache fills. Off-cluster cache fills can include at least one of cross-cluster cache fills and cache fills from system memory. The processing system can further include one or more controllers configured to control performance of one or more of the clusters, the processor cores, the fabric, and the memory responsive to cache fill metrics derived from the plurality of counters.
US10942841B2	User assisted automated test case generation There is provided a computer-implemented method for generating verified software application tests, the method comprising: acquiring a computer readable model representing a functionality of a software application to be tested; generating, based at least partly on the model, a test template for generating a plurality of verified software application tests, the test template comprising a plurality of data input fields for data values and defining data value constraints for the data values; obtaining user data input regarding a data input field; determining whether said user data input defines a data value of the data input field according to the data value constraints; in response to determining that said user data input does not define a data value according to the data value constraints, adjusting one or more data values of the test template such that said data value constraints are met; and generating, based on the test template, at least one software application test meeting the data value constraints.
US10942834B2	Real-time personalization product tracking B2B/B2C A method for personalizing content and functionality in a computer application includes: learning user behavior based on detected input and feature usage by analyzing communication requests and response between client device and application services; creating a product adoption learning model based on user behavior and profile by applying training algorithm of feature usage in relation to user behavior following the feature usage of the user throughout the user lifecycle; and determining feature adoption schedule and time window and applying the adoption learning model based on user behavior, user profile and feature usage.
US10942828B2	Method for storing data shards, apparatus, and system This application relates to distributed storage, and in particular, to a distributed shard storage technology. In a method for storing data shards in a distributed storage system, M data nodes on which to-be-stored data will be stored are determined, N replicas of the to-be-stored data are obtained, and each of the N replicas is sharded into X data shards in a same sharding mode. Then the to-be-stored data is stored on the M storage nodes, that is, N replicas of each of the X data shards are respectively stored on N storage nodes, and a quantity of data shards whose data shard replicas are stored on same N storage nodes is P or P+1, where P is an integer quotient of X divided by CMN.
US10942822B2	Consistency group restoration from a secondary site Techniques for replay of groups of I/Os for disaster recovery. At a primary site, a plurality of primary site computing entities that are to be restored from the secondary computing site after a disaster recovery event are identified as belonging to an entity group. At the primary site, I/O commands that are performed over any of the entities of the entity group are observed and streamed to the secondary site, where they are persisted into a log. Periodically, the primary site sends the secondary site an I/O map that associates a time with an indication of the last performed I/O commands pertaining to any observed I/O commands that had been performed over any one or more of the computing entities of the entity group. Upon receiving a disaster recovery request, the most recent I/O map and the secondary site log are processed to construct a snapshot for the entity group.
US10942821B1	Method and apparatus for dynamic binding and unbinding thin logical storage volumes to snapshots of a file system A method of dynamic binding and unbinding thin logical storage volumes to data volumes stored in a storage array includes creating a snapshot copy of a user file system, storing the snapshot copy of the user file system in a data volume in the storage array, and binding a logical storage volume to the data volume. The logical storage volume is then used, by a snapshot file system, to access the data volume. If the data volume is not accessed for a period of time, the logical storage volume is unbound from the data volume while maintaining the snapshot copy of the user file system in the data volume. If an access event later occurs on the data volume, a second logical storage volume is bound to the data volume and used by the snapshot file system to access the data volume in connection with the access event.
US10942816B1	Systems and methods for dynamically adjusting a backup policy The disclosed computer-implemented method for dynamically adjusting a backup policy may include dynamically adjusting a backup policy may include accessing a media file, evaluating an objective criterion of a difficulty to reproduce the media file to generate a difficulty rating, comparing the difficulty rating of the media file to an existing difficulty rating for at least one previous media file, and adjusting a backup policy for the media file based on the comparison of the difficulty rating. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10942811B2	Data processing method for solid state drive A data processing method for a solid state drive includes the following steps. When a write command is received, the write command is executed to store a write data into a first number of blocks of the plural blocks, a block-closing action is performed to generate a first number of used blocks, and the logical-to-physical table is updated. When a trim command is received, the trim command is executed to change a second number of used blocks to a second number of unused blocks, a physical-to-logical data corresponding to the second number of used blocks is stored into a trim block of the non-volatile memory, and the logical-to-physical table is updated. A backup action is performed at plural time points to generate plural backup contents corresponding to the plural time points, respectively. The plural backup contents are stored into the non-volatile memory.
US10942807B2	Storage system spanning multiple failure domains A plurality of failure domains are communicatively coupled to each other via a network, and each of the plurality of failure domains is coupled to one or more storage devices. A failure resilient stripe is distributed across the plurality of storage devices, such that two or more blocks of the failure resilient stripe are located in each failure domain.
US10942806B2	Manipulating a distributed agreement protocol to identify a desired set of storage units A method includes obtaining, by a computing device, a plurality of sets of encoded data slices for storage in memory of a dispersed storage network (DSN). The method further includes identifying, by the computing device, a desired set of storage units within pools of storage units for storing the plurality of sets of encoded data slices. The method further includes generating, by the computing device, a specific source name based on the desired set of storage units and a distributed agreement protocol (DAP). The method further includes generating, by the computing device, a plurality of sets of slices names that includes the specific source name. The method further includes sending, by the computing device, a plurality of sets of write requests to the desired set of storage units regarding the plurality of sets of encoded data slices and in accordance with the plurality of sets of slice names.
US10942804B2	Physical-layer quantum error suppression for superconducting qubits in quantum computation and optimization A device combines physical qubits into a logical qubit according to a passive, quantum error-suppressing code, and weaves logical qubits into a fabric for performing computation or annealing according to an active, quantum error-correcting code. By using enough physical qubits in each logical qubit, the error suppression can overcome errors introduced by ambient noise, such as thermal fluctuations. However, interactions between individual logical qubits are based on interactions between multiple physical qubits, such as XX or ZZ interactions, so logical interactions require intermediary circuitry capable of coupling four or more spins-this circuitry also is described, wherein coupling an ancilla qubit to such intermediary circuitry allows the formation of a logical qubit having passive error suppression, and arbitrary computations can be performed using a fabric of such circuitry. Concatenating the active and passive codes does not increase circuit complexity, or reduce the speed of gate operations.
US10942802B2	Semiconductor device and memory access control method A semiconductor device includes an address conversion circuit which generates the second address for storing an error detecting code in a memory based on the first address for storing data; a write circuit which writes data at the first address and writes an error detecting code at the second address; and a read circuit which reads data from the first address, reads the error detecting code from the second address, and detects an error based on the data and the error detecting code. The address conversion circuit generates an address as the second address by modifying the value of at least one bit of the first address so as to offset the storing position of the error detecting code to the storing position of the data, and by inverting the value of or permutating the order of the prescribed number of bits among the other bits.
US10942801B2	Application performance management system with collective learning An application performance management system is disclosed. Operational elements are dynamically discovered and extended when changes occur. Programmatic knowledge is captured. Particular instances of operational elements are recognized after changes have been made using a fingerprint/signature process. Metrics and metadata associated with a monitored operational element are sent in a compressed form to a backend for analysis. Metrics and metadata from multiple similar systems may be used to adjust/create expert rules to be used in the analysis of the state of an operational element. A 3-D user interface with both physical and logical representations may be used to display the results of the performance management system.
US10942798B2	Watchdog timer hierarchy In one example of the technology, via a first independent execution environment of a set of independent execution environments in an integrated circuit, a first watchdog timer is caused to reset on a periodic basis. The set of independent execution environments is configured to have a defense-in-depth hierarchy. The set of independent execution environments includes a first independent execution environment and a second independent execution environment. The first independent execution environment is a most trusted execution environment on the integrated circuit. Via the second independent execution environment: a second watchdog timer is periodically caused to reset on a periodic basis. In response to the second watchdog timer timing out, an interrupt is communicated from the second watchdog timer to the first independent execution environment. In response to the first watchdog timer timing out, at least a portion of the integrated circuit is reset.
US10942795B1	Serverless call distribution to utilize reserved capacity without inhibiting scaling Systems and methods are described for reducing cold starts code within a serverless code execution system by providing a set of environments reserved for the code. A frontend utilizes a consistent hash ring to distribute calls for execution among a set of manager devices that manage environments in the system, distributed in a manner that groups calls together and attempts to distribute calls of the same group to a stable subset of the manager devices. Each group is assigned an arc, representing a subset of manager devices. When a call is received to execute a set of code that has environments reserved, the frontend distributes the call to a manager device of a reserved arc. When a call is received to execute a set of code that does not have environment reserved, the frontend distributes the call to an arc associated with an arc for unreserved executions.
US10942794B2	Method and apparatus for providing network-based northbound application programming interface in a wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Embodiments herein achieve a method and system for providing a network-based northbound application programming interface. The method includes receiving, by an API provider, a request for invoking one or more service APIs from one or more API invoker clients. The method includes utilizing, by the API provider, a CAPIF core function residing at a first domain to provide the one or more service APIs. The method includes providing, by the API provider, the one or more service APIs to the one or more API invoker clients through the CAPIF core function, wherein the API provider comprises one or more service APIs, an API exposing function, an API publishing function and an API management function.
US10942789B2	Performance-based reallocating of logical processing units to sockets of a computer system A multiprocessor computer system facility is provided for selectively reallocating a logical processing unit. The logical processing unit is one logical processing unit of multiple logical processing units backed by a socket of a plurality of sockets of a multiprocessor computer system. The selectively reallocating includes: monitoring, during execution of program code, a performance metric of a hardware resource of the socket, the hardware resource being shared by the multiple logical processing units; and reassigning the logical processing unit, based on the monitoring, to a different socket of the plurality of sockets of the multiprocessor computer system to, in part, improve the performance metric of the hardware resource of the socket. The reassigning includes reassigning the logical processing unit based on the monitoring determining that a differential between a resource utilization rate of the socket and a resource utilization rate of the different socket exceeds a set threshold.
US10942788B2	Policy constraint framework for an sddc Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for processing requests for performing operations on resources in a software defined datacenter (SDDC). The resources are software-defined (SD) resources in some embodiments. The method initially receives a request to perform an operation with respect to a first resource in the SDDC. The method identifies a policy that matches (i.e., is applicable to) the received request for the first resource by comparing a set of attributes of the request with sets of attributes of a set of policies that place constraints on operations specified for resources. In some embodiments, several sets of attributes for several policies can be expressed for resources at different hierarchal resource levels of the SDDC. The method rejects the received request when the identified policy specifies that the requested operation violates a constraint on operations specified for the first resource.
US10942779B1	Method and system for compliance map engine A method for assigning clients to backup resources of a backup pool includes receiving backup resource requests from the clients. The method includes assigning a portion of the clients to a first backup resource of the backup pool while the first backup resource is not overloaded. The method includes after assigning the portion of the clients, obtaining status information for the first backup resource of the backup pool. The method includes making a first determination that the first backup resource is overloaded based on the status information and a load policy. The method includes in response to the first determination, determining that an attribute of the first backup resource is available for reconfiguration. The method includes reconfiguring the attribute of the first backup resource to obtain a reconfigured backup resource. The method includes assigning a client, which has not been assigned to the backup resources, to the reconfigured backup resource.
US10942777B2	Sorting apparatus A sorter receives a list of elements to be sorted. An element of the list is supplied to a selected one of a plurality of processing units to be processed. The selected one of the processing units sends the element to one of a plurality of list element cells, which rank orders the elements among other elements in the same list element storage as well as storing the position of each element from the original list. Each of the plurality of list element cells processes and stores a different range of element values. The element being processed is stored in sorted order in the list element cell that has an element value range that encompasses the value of the element of the list.
US10942772B2	Dispatching jobs for execution in parallel by multiple processors A method and system for dispatching jobs for execution in a computing system containing multiple processors that include one or more processors that retrieve an indication of a last processor of the processors of a current class to which a last job of jobs of the current class has been submitted for execution. A new job of multiple jobs has been assigned to the current class. The one or more processors retrieve an indication of a delta number of the jobs being submitted for execution to the last processor of the current class. The one or more processors submit the new job for execution to a submission processor of the multiple processors. The submission processor is set to a selected processor of the multiple processors according to a comparison between the delta number and the queue size of the last processor of the current class.
US10942770B2	Method, device and computer readable medium for analyzing and responding to a request corresponding to a GPU task A client side method for processing a GPU task comprises: receiving a request for the GPU task from an application; determining whether the request relates to a query about an execution state of the GPU task; and in response to the request relating to the query, providing a positive acknowledgement for the query to the application, without forwarding the request to a machine that executes the GPU task. A server side method for processing a GPU task comprises: receiving a request for the GPU task from a machine, the request being irrelevant to a query about an execution state of the GPU task; determining whether processing of the request depends on a processing of a previous request; and in response to the processing of the request depending on the processing of the previous request, suspending the processing of the request until the processing of the previous request is completed.
US10942760B2	Predictive rightsizing for virtual machines in cloud computing systems Various embodiments, methods, and systems for implementing a predictive rightsizing system are provided. Predicted rightsized deployment configurations are generated for virtual machine “VM” deployments having deployment configurations that are modified to predicted rightsized deployment configurations based on a prediction engine. In operation, a VM deployment, associated with a request to deploy one or more VMs on a node, is accessed at a predictive rightsizing controller. A predicted resource utilization for the VM deployment is generated at the prediction engine and accessed at the predictive rightsizing controller. The predicted resource utilization is generated based on a prediction engine that uses past behaviors and features associated with previous VM deployments. Based on the predicted resource utilization, a predicted rightsized deployment configuration is generated for the VM deployment. The predicted rightsized deployment configuration is communicated such that the request to deploy the VMs is executed based on the predicted rightsized deployment configuration.
US10942759B2	Seamless virtual standard switch to virtual distributed switch migration for hyper-converged infrastructure A method to migrate a cluster's hosts and virtual machines from virtual standard switches to a virtual distributed switch includes creating distributed port groups on the virtual distributed switch, where properties of the distributed port groups are automatically replicated to host proxy switches on the hosts. The method further includes configuring the distributed port group with ephemeral binding so port binding of the distributed port group is configurable through a host in the cluster even when an infrastructure virtual machine that manages the cluster is down, determining (or receiving user input indicating) the infrastructure virtual machine is on the host, and issuing a call to the host to migrate (1) the infrastructure virtual machine to the distributed port group and (2) one or more physical network interface cards of the host to the virtual distributed switch.
US10942756B2	System and method for executing different types of blockchain contracts Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for executing blockchain contracts are provided. One of the methods includes: obtaining a bytecode of a blockchain contract, wherein the bytecode comprises one or more indicators, and the one or more indicators comprise a first indicator indicating a virtual machine type for executing the blockchain contract; and executing the blockchain contract using a virtual machine of the virtual machine type associated with the first indicator.
US10942754B2	Method for development and execution of a machine learning model on a field device A method for deployment of a machine learning model (MLM) on a target field device is disclosed herein. The method includes automatically generating a set of source code files based on the machine learning model, wherein the set of source code files is configured to execute the machine learning model according to predetermined capabilities of the target field device; transforming the generated source code files into a model binary using a tool chain specific to the target field device; and deploying the model binary in a memory of the target field device.
US10942753B2	Data loading system A data loading system includes a processing circuit, a nonvolatile memory, and a programmable logic device. The processing circuit and the programmable logic device are separately coupled to different data interfaces of the nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile memory stores start code of the processing circuit and configuration data of the programmable logic device, and the processing circuit and the programmable logic device are configured to respectively obtain the start code and the configuration data from the nonvolatile memory at the same time under the action of a first synchronization clock. Hence, the system increases a speed and reliability of data loading and increases a start speed and reliability of a board.
US10942752B2	Cloud computing operating system and method A cloud computing operating system is described. The system, in one aspect, includes a plurality of code encapsulating data structures each configured to define executable code and to define the structure of one or more encapsulating data structures. The executable code is configured to instantiate one or more of the encapsulating data structures and to perform runtime operations on the encapsulating data structures. And the plurality of code encapsulating data structures form an inheritance hierarchy, each code encapsulating data structure being an encapsulating data structure itself and each encapsulating data structure instantiated by an associated code encapsulating data structure. Other aspects of the cloud computing operating system are also described.
US10942747B2	Head and tail pointer manipulation in a first-in-first-out issue queue Aspects of the invention include tracking relative ages of instructions in a first-in-first-out (FIFO) issue queue of an out-of-order (OoO) processor. The FIFO issue queue is configured to add instructions to the issue queue in a sequential order and to remove instructions from the issue queue in any order including a non-sequential order. The tracking of relative ages of instructions includes maintaining a head pointer to a location of an oldest instruction in the issue queue and a tail pointer to a location of a last instruction added to the issue queue. It is determined periodically whether the tail pointer is pointing to a location that includes a valid instruction. The tail pointer is updated to point to a previous sequential location in the issue queue based at least in part on determining that the tail pointer is not pointing to a location that corresponds to a valid instruction.
US10942743B2	Splitting load hit store table for out-of-order processor According to one or more embodiments, an example computer-implemented method for executing one or more out-of-order instructions by a processing unit, includes decoding an instruction to be executed, and based on a determination that the instruction is a store instruction, identifying a split load-hit-store (LHS) table for the store instruction, wherein a LHS table of the processing unit includes multiple split LHS tables. Identifying the split LHS table includes determining, for the store instruction, a first split LHS table by performing a mod operation using one or more operands from the store instruction, and adding one or more parameters of the store instruction in the first split LHS table by generating an ITAG for the store instruction. The method further includes dispatching the store instruction for execution to an issue queue with the ITAG.
US10942742B1	Hardware engine with configurable instructions A reconfigurable processing circuit and system are provided. The system allows a user to program machine-level instructions in order to reconfigure the way the circuit behaves, including by adding new operations. The system can include a profile access content-addressable memory (CAM) configured to receive an execution step value from a step counter. The execution step value can be incremented and/or reset by a step management logic. The profile access CAM can select an entry of a profile table based on an opcode and the execution step value, and the processing engine can execute microcode based on the selected entry of the profile table. The profile access CAM can translate the opcode to an internal short instruction identifier in order to select the entry of the profile table. The system can further include an instruction decoding module configured to merge multiple instruction fields into a single effective instruction field.
US10942741B2	Storage organization for transposing a matrix using a streaming engine Software instructions are executed on a processor within a computer system to configure a steaming engine to operate in either a linear mode or a transpose mode. A stream of addresses is generated using an address generator, in which the stream of addresses includes consecutive nested loop iterations for at least a first loop and a second loop. While in the linear mode, the first loop is treated as an inner loop. While in the transpose mode, the second loop is treated as the inner loop. A matrix can be fetched from memory in the linear mode to provide row-wise vectors. A matrix can be fetched from the memory in the transpose mode to provide column wise vectors. Local storage on the streaming engine is organized as sectors based on the number of rows in the matrix to allow overlapping transposition processing and to minimize memory accesses.
US10942740B2	Transitionary pre-emption for virtual reality related contexts Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that activates a first context on a graphics processor and detects a context switch condition with respect to the first context. Additionally, a second context may be activated, in response to the context switch condition, on the graphics processor while the first context is active on the graphics processor. In one example, activating the second context includes adding a group identifier to a plurality of threads corresponding to the second context and launching the plurality of threads with the group identifier on the graphics processor.
US10942739B2	Check instruction for verifying correct code execution context A data processing apparatus and method of data processing are provided which make use of a processor state check instruction to determine if the data processing apparatus is currently operating in a processor state, defined by at least one runtime processor state configuration value, which matches a processor state check value defined by the processor state check instruction. Dependent on the required runtime processor state configuration value(s) matching the processor state check value, the processor state check instruction is treated as an ineffective instruction. When the at least one runtime processor state configuration value does not match the processor state check value an exception is generated. Improved security of the data processing apparatus is thus provided.
US10942731B2	Scalable code repository with green master A green master is maintained in a code repository. A code management system receives changes to the code and maintains an ordered revision queue. A hierarchical set of builds is defined with each build corresponding to a code change. A model is applied to determine a value for each build, with the value being based on the probability that the build will ultimately be used. A build schedule is determined based on the values for the builds and at least some of the builds are implemented to determine whether committing the corresponding code changes keep the master green or not. Code changes that keep master green are committed to the code repository.
US10942723B2	Format for multi-artefact software packages In an example embodiment, a solution is used to provide for a highly efficient application installer. A software packaging format, known as vSolution, is provided that allows software developers to ship multiple artefacts of different types in a single container. Unlike traditional mechanisms, this container does not contain a dedicated installer executable or any sort of installation routine. Rather, the container format encourages a declarative approach to describe what an installation routine should perform, via the organization of the artefacts based on content type and using a naming convention.
US10942719B2	System and method for connector development and integration channel development Independent Software Vendors ISVs develop, support, execute, and sell cloud applications. Cloud Service Broker Platforms (CSBs) provide partially-automated delivery of integrated cloud applications from different ISVs. Integration of ISV software requires special integration components such as connector packages and connector backends. Development of such components can be time consuming and expensive. The present disclosure relates to a system and method for allowing connector developers to decrease the cost of developing connector package and connector backends by allowing deployment and configuration of web services automatically and also allows support for scalability and zero-downtime upgrades out of the box, by the use of an automated authoring tool that generates connector packages from archetypes created by the CSB.
US10942700B2	Hearing device incorporating user interactive auditory display A hearing device comprises a processor configured to generate a virtual auditory display comprising a sound field, a plurality of disparate sound field zones, and a plurality of quite zones that provide acoustic contrast between the sound field zones. The sound field zones and the quiet zones remain positionally stationary within the sound field. One or more sensors are configured to sense a plurality of inputs from the wearer. The processor is configured to facilitate movement of the wearer within the sound field in response to a navigation input received from the one or more sensors. The processor is also configured to select one of the sound field zones for playback via a speaker or actuation of a hearing device function in response to a selection input received from the one or more sensors.
US10942698B2	Control method of display system, display system, and display device A control method of a display system including a plurality of display devices includes: transmitting, by each of the plurality of display devices, management information including identification information indicating that grouping is supported; acquiring, by a first display device as one of the plurality of display devices, the management information transmitted from a second display device; transmitting, by the first display device, connection information necessary for wireless connection to the first display device to the second display device; and wirelessly connecting, by the second display device, to the first display device based on the connection information, when the second display device receives the connection information from the first display device, to thereby participate in a group of the first display device.
US10942696B2	Display device selection based on hardware configuration A computing system is provided, including a first display device having a first hardware configuration including a first display and a second display device having a second hardware configuration different from the first hardware configuration and including a second display. The computing system may further include a processor configured to receive an input including instructions to launch an application program on the first display device. The application program may include application program hardware specifications indicating hardware used by the application program. Based on the first hardware configuration, the second hardware configuration, and the application program hardware specifications, the processor may be further configured to determine that the second hardware configuration matches the application program hardware specifications more closely than the first hardware configuration. The processor may be further configured to launch the application program on the second display device.
US10942686B2	Printer recommendation system Embodiments described herein provide a system for facilitating a printer recommendation in an enterprise environment. During operation, the system receives, from a user device in the enterprise environment, a print task for a file. The system then determines a list of printers accessible from the enterprise environment based on metadata associated with the file from a printer database. The printer database stores information associated with a respective printer accessible from the enterprise environment. A respective printer in the list of printers can be available and feasible for the print task. The system then ranks the list of printers with respect to an objective of the print task and presents the ranked list as a printer recommendation for the print task in a user interface to the user.
US10942683B2	Reducing page invalidation broadcasts Technical solutions are described for reducing page invalidation broadcasts in a computer system. An example method includes pre-allocating a pool of large memory frames by a real storage manager. The method also includes receiving, by a virtual storage manager, an instruction from an application to allocate a memory buffer, where the instruction includes a request to back the memory buffer using large pages. The virtual storage manager, in response to the instruction, allocates the memory buffer from the pre-allocated pool of large memory frames.
US10942682B2	System and method of interfacing co-processors and input/output devices via a main memory system A system for interfacing with a co-processor or input/output device is disclosed. According to one embodiment, the system includes a computer processing unit, a memory module, a memory bus that connects the computer processing unit and the memory module and a co-processing unit or input/output device, wherein the memory bus also connects the co-processing unit or input/output device to the computer processing unit.
US10942672B2	Data transfer method and apparatus for differential data granularities Apparatuses, storage media and methods associated with data transfer, are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an apparatus for computing comprises: a commit generator and a media write generator. The commit generator is arranged to generate commit indicators correspondingly associated with media slices of a storage media to respectively denote to a storage media controller of the storage media whether to proceed with writing the media slices into the storage media. The media write generator is arranged provide data chunks of the media slices to be written into the storage media, and the associated commit indicators to the storage media controller. A size of each data chunk is smaller than a size of each media slice. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US10942670B2	Direct access flash transition layer The disclosure provides an approach for accessing data stored in a page addressable memory by a first virtual computing instance (VCI) running on a host, the host running a virtualization layer configured to provide access to resources to the first VCI. The approach includes mapping by a flash translation layer (FTL) of the virtualization layer a first virtual address received in an I/O request from the first VCI directly to a physical page address (PPA) of the page addressable memory. The approach includes issuing an access request to the page addressable memory based on the I/O request, the access request comprising the PPA. The approach includes receiving data stored at the PPA from the page addressable memory. The approach includes passing the data to the first VCI.
US10942655B2	Mitigating data errors in a storage device Systems and methods presented herein provide for mitigating errors in a storage device. In one embodiment, a storage system includes a storage device comprising a plurality of storage areas operable to store data, and a controller operable to evaluate operating conditions of the storage device, to perform a background scan on a first of the storage areas to characterize a read retention of the first storage area, and to adjust a read signal of the first storage area based on the characterized read retention and the operating conditions of the storage device.
US10942654B2	Hash-based data recovery from remote storage system An apparatus in one embodiment comprises at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The processing device is configured to detect an error relating to storage of a given data page in a first storage system, and to send a message to at least one additional storage system, the message containing a hash digest of the given data page. The processing device is further configured to receive from the additional storage system responsive to the message a recovery data page identified by the additional storage system as having the same hash digest as the given data page. The recovery data page received from the additional storage system is verified by computing a hash digest of the recovery data page and comparing the computed hash digest to the hash digest of the given data page. Separate instances of the message containing the hash digest of the given data page may be sent to each of a plurality of additional storage systems.
US10942641B2	Synchronized calendar and timeline adaptive user interface A system, computer-readable medium, and computer-implemented method, including receiving first temporal information relating to one or more calendar events, the calendar events each having a duration equal to a day or less; receiving second temporal information relating to one or more timeline events, the timeline events each having a duration equal to or greater than a day; generating a user interface including user interface representations of an integrated calendar and timeline visualization to, in response to user input, navigate and control aspects of both the calendar events and the timeline events; and presenting, in response to user input via the user interface, a synchronized navigation and control of both the calendar events and the timeline events.
US10942638B2	Method and system for displaying a cursor on a trading screen A method, system, and computer program products are provided for updating the location of a cursor in a display window on a trading screen when certain events occurs. In a preferred embodiment, as market conditions change, the market information may be rearranged on a screen. To reduce the chances of missing a market opportunity by sending orders or managing them, the cursor moves in association with the market information such that the cursor appears fixed to the market information until a user moves the pointer device.
US10942631B2	Content delivery system, content reception apparatus, and content delivery method A content transmission apparatus displays, on the display screen, an image created based on content. The content transmission apparatus detects a move operation on a selected image. The content transmission apparatus determines whether or not the selected image has been moved to a predetermined transmission-side specified area on the display screen. When the selected image has been moved to the transmission-side specified area, the content transmission apparatus changes the display form of the image, and transmits the content corresponding to the selected image, to a storage area associated with the transmission-side specified area. A content reception apparatus obtains the content from the storage area for display.
US10942625B1	Coordinated display of software application interfaces Systems and methods provide techniques for providing coordinated display of software applications. In one embodiments, a method for enabling a first software application to enter a co-display mode with a second software application includes obtaining a co-display notification associated with the second software application; determining an overlay region within the first display region; generating a display update request, wherein the display update request is configured to cause the computing device to display a transparent overlay user interface element over the overlay region; causing the computing device to transmit co-display information to the second software application; and causing the computing device to update display of a first application interface associated with the first software application in accordance with the display update request.
US10942624B1	Interface to display animated icon Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to mobile computing technology and, more particularly, but not by way of limitation, to systems for generating and presenting a graphical user interface (GUI) that includes a presentation of an animated icon (e.g., a digital pet) a display of a client device.
US10942617B2	Runtime adaptation of augmented reality gaming content based on context of surrounding physical environment Systems and methods are provided for run-time adaptation of augmented reality gaming content that is rendered on a computing device based on a context of a surrounding physical environment. For example, an augmented reality gaming application is streamed to a computing device of a user. During run-time execution of the augmented reality gaming application, a detection process is performed to detect an unsafe region in a physical environment surrounding the computing device of the user. Responsive to detecting the unsafe region in the physical environment, the content of the augmented reality gaming application is automatically adapted by changing a position or trajectory of a user-interaction object in a virtual gaming environment of the augmented reality gaming application such that the adapted content leads the user of the computing device on a path that avoids the detected unsafe region in the physical environment.
US10942615B2	Reconfigurable clip-on modules for mobile computing devices A set of reconfigurable clip-on modules for mobile computing devices includes two or more modules and at least one of the modules has an input button or other control and at least one of the modules can communicate with the computing device without needing to be connected to it via a wire. The input button is mapped to a user input in a program, such as a game, which is running or displayed on the computing device to which the modules are clipped. In an embodiment, user inputs via the buttons or other controls on the clip-on modules are mapped to user inputs in a game running on the device, which may be a touch-screen device, and the mapping between user inputs via the buttons and user inputs in the game may change dependent upon the game being played, user preference, or other criteria.
US10942614B2	Terminal device and method for displaying an associated window thereof A method for displaying an associated window of a terminal device is provided. The method includes for a current window displayed, determining an associated window of the current window among at least a subset of all windows of the terminal device, and displaying the associated window together with the current window, wherein content displayed in the associated window is related to content displayed in the current window. When examples of the present disclosure are employed, windows associated with each other can be displayed simultaneously, interaction between a user and the device can be reduced, and system resources of the device can be saved.
US10942613B2	Input device and method of controlling the same Charge is periodically supplied to a detection electrode so that a first alternating current voltage is generated in the detection electrode, and a detection signal corresponding to the supplied charge is created. A second alternating current voltage having the same frequency and phase as the first alternating current voltage is applied to a plurality of driving electrodes. An amplitude pattern, which is a combination of the amplitudes of the second alternating current voltages to be applied to the plurality of driving electrodes is switched according to a predetermined series of amplitude patterns. In each amplitude pattern included in the series of amplitude patterns, the second alternating current voltage having a certain amplitude is applied to the remaining driving electrodes resulting from excluding one driving electrode, and the second alternating current voltage having an amplitude different from the remaining driving electrodes is applied to the one driving electrode.
US10942612B2	Touch panel and display device including the same A touch panel includes: a substrate; a plurality of sensor electrodes disposed on the substrate; and a dummy pattern disposed on the substrate among the plurality of sensor electrodes. Each of the sensor electrode includes a plurality of first mesh patterns extending in a first direction and a plurality of second mesh patterns connecting adjacent ones of the plurality of first mesh patterns in a second direction, and the dummy pattern includes a plurality of third mesh patterns extending in the first direction and one or more disconnected portions on an extension path of the plurality of third mesh patterns.
US10942611B2	Touch panel including touch sensor and driving method thereof A touch panel including: a first electrode pattern arranged in a first direction, including a plurality of first electrode cells that are physically separated from each other; a second electrode pattern arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction, including a plurality of second electrode cells that are physically separated from each other; first touch signal lines connected to the first electrode cells; and second touch signal lines connected to the second electrode cells. The electrode patterns and the touch signal lines are arranged on the same layer on a substrate such that a first virtual connection line for connecting centers of second electrode cells of a first group corresponding to an n-th first electrode cell crosses a second virtual connection line for connecting centers of second electrode cells of a second group corresponding to an (n+1)-th first electrode cell.
US10942602B1	Electronic device with finger touch detection and related methods In one embodiment, a method for operating an electronic device includes determining that a touch sensitive display is being contacted. The touch sensitive display includes a plurality of mutual-sensing capacitive sensor regions and an array of self-sensing capacitive sensor regions. The plurality of mutual-sensing capacitive sensor regions is arranged in rows and columns on the touch sensitive display. The array of self-sensing capacitive sensor regions is arranged in a row or a column on the touch sensitive display. The method may include obtaining mutual sensing touch values for each of the rows and the columns and self-sensing touch values for the row or the column. Based on the mutual sensing touch values and self-sensing touch values, the method includes determining whether a contacted region of the touch sensitive display is an impression of a single finger, multiple fingers, a single thumb, or multiple thumbs.
US10942599B2	Electrode connection and electric device comprising the same An electrode connection unit is to be electrically connected with electrode terminals. The electrode connection unit includes a metallic core part having a plurality of first holes therein and a conductive nonmetallic coating layer on the metallic core part. An image display device and a touch screen panel include the electrode connection unit.
US10942585B2	Trackability enhancement of a passive stylus Systems and methods for enhancing trackability of a passive stylus. A six degree of freedom (6DoF) location and orientation of a passive stylus may be tracked by a tracking system via a retroreflector system disposed on the passive stylus. Additionally, characteristic movements of one of a user's finger, hand, and/or wrist may be recognized by the tracking system. The passive stylus may useable to interact with a virtual 3D scene being displayed via a 3D display. A user input via the passive stylus may be determined based on the tracked 6DoF location and orientation of the passive stylus and/or the recognized characteristic movements. The retroreflector system may include multiple patterns of retroreflectors and one of the patterns may be a spiral pattern of retroreflectors disposed along a longitudinal axis of the passive stylus.
US10942584B2	Interchangeable input mechanisms for control devices Various embodiments described herein are directed toward input mechanisms, for input devices, configured to receive and removably couple to interchangeable elements. Handheld input devices applicable to some embodiments may include, without limitation, computer controllers, video game console controllers, and handheld video gaming devices. Input mechanisms applicable to various embodiments may include, for example, control sticks (e.g., joysticks or analog sticks operable by a user's finger, such as a thumbstick), buttons, switches, and directional pads. According to some embodiments, an input mechanism is provided comprising a base component. Depending on the embodiment, coupling different interchangeable elements to the base component may cause the input mechanism to vary in size, appearance, contour, material, or features provided by the input mechanism.
US10942580B2	Input circuitry, terminal, and touch response method and device An input circuitry includes: a touch key layer and a pressure sensing layer. The touch key layer is positioned above the pressure sensing layer; the touch key layer is configured to receive touch operation. The pressure sensing layer is configured to acquire touch pressure of the touch operation performed on the touch key layer. The touch pressure is acquired through the pressure sensing layer, a response instruction is generated according to the touch pressure, and the terminal executes the touch instruction.
US10942577B2	Augmented reality interaction techniques A method may include receiving, via a processor, image data associated with a user's surrounding and generating, via the processor, a visualization that may include a virtual industrial automation device. The virtual industrial automation device may depict a virtual object within image data, and the virtual object may correspond to a physical industrial automation device. The method may include displaying, via the processor, the visualization via an electronic display and detecting, via the processor, a gesture in image data that may include the user's surrounding and the visualization. The gesture may be indicative of a request to move the virtual industrial automation device. The method may include tracking, via the processor, a user's movement, generating, via the processor, a visualization that may include an animation of the virtual industrial automation device moving based on the user's movement, and displaying, via the processor, the visualization via the electronic display.
US10942572B1	Systems, methods, and articles using polarizable media in haptic-jamming A haptic-jamming device may include (1) a first haptic-jamming member having a polarizable first element rotatable about an axis and a first elongated extension outwardly disposed from the first element in a first direction, (2) a second haptic-jamming member having a second element rotatable about the axis and a second elongated extension outwardly disposed from the second element in a second direction, and (3) a variable voltage source for at least one of the first haptic-jamming member or the second haptic-jamming member that, when energized, generates an electrostatic field encompassing at least one of the first or second elements. A level of separation of the first and second elements may be related to a strength of the electrostatic field. Various other methods, systems, and wearable articles are also disclosed.
US10942568B2	Wearable computing device with electrophysiological sensors A wearable computing device with bio-signal sensors and a feedback module provides an interactive mediated reality (“VR”) environment for a user. The bio-signal sensors receive bio-signal data (for example, brainwaves) from the user and include bio-signal sensors embedded in a display isolator, having a deformable surface, and having an electrode extendable to contact the user's skin. The wearable computing device further includes a processor to: present content in the VR environment via the feedback module; receive bio-signal data of the user from the bio-signal sensor; process the bio-signal data to determine user states of the user, including brain states, using a user profile; modify a parameter of the content in the VR environment in response to the user states of the user. The user receives feedback indicating the modification of the content via the feedback module.
US10942564B2	Dynamic graphics rendering based on predicted saccade landing point A method for predicting eye movement in a head mounted display (HMD). The method including tracking movement of an eye of a user with a gaze tracking system disposed in the HMD at a plurality of sample points. The method including determining velocity of the movement based on the movement of the eye. The method including determining that the eye of the user is in a saccade upon the velocity reaching a threshold velocity. The method including predicting a landing point on the display of the HMD corresponding to a direction of the eye for the saccade.
US10942561B2	Determination of one or more operating parameters for a switched-mode power supply A method includes obtaining a first waveform representing an output characteristic with respect to time of a switched-mode power supply. The method further includes removing a high frequency component from the first waveform to generate a modified waveform and determining a stable value of the modified waveform. The method further includes determining an operating parameter of the switched-mode power supply based on the modified waveform, the stable value, or a combination thereof. The one or parameter includes an overshoot value associated with the switched-mode power supply, an undershoot value associated with the switched-mode power supply, or a settling time associated with the switched-mode power supply. The method further includes outputting an indication of the parameter.
US10942559B2	Electronic display power management systems and methods An electronic device may include a display panel to display images based on corresponding image data and an image source to pre-render a flip-book including a first image frame for display at a first target presentation time and a second image frame for display at a second target presentation time. The electronic device may also include a display pipeline coupled between the display panel and the image source having image data processing circuitry to process image data for display. The electronic device may also include a controller to instruct the display pipeline to process image data, to determine a power-on time based on a target presentation time, and to instruct the display pipeline to power-gate the image data processing circuitry upon completion of the processing of image data and until the power-on time is reached.
US10942539B2	Method for controlling a work machine The invention relates to a system for controlling a work machine, in particular a wheel loader, having at least one hand-held control device (6), in particular a joystick or steering wheel, at least one restoring device (8) in the form of one or more spring assemblies, which are connected to the hand-held control device in such a way a restoring force is exerted upon the hand-held control device by the spring assembly when said spring assembly is not in the central position. An adjusting device (9, 12, 13) which engages with the spring assembly such that an adjustment of the central position of the spring assembly can be carried out, is provided.
US10942531B1	Swimming pool leveling system and method of use A swimming pool leveling system includes a bracket extending from a first end to a second end, the bracket having openings; a float valve having a body with a float positioned within an interior of the body, the float valve engaged with the bracket via an adjustment device; a pressure reducing valve engaged with the body and to receive a water source; and a base having a base body with an enclosed interior accessible via an opening, the enclosed interior configured to receive a weight, the base having knobs protruding from an end to engage with the openings to secure the base to the bracket; the base is to rest on a surface such that the bracket extends the float valve into a pool; and the float valve to allow filling of the pool to a desired height.
US10942528B2	Return path configuration for remote controlled aerial vehicle Disclosed is a configuration to control automatic return of an aerial vehicle. The configuration stores a return location in a storage device of the aerial vehicle. The return location may correspond to a location where the aerial vehicle is to return. One or more sensors of the aerial vehicle are monitored during flight for detection of a predefined condition. When a predetermined condition is met a return path program may be loaded for execution to provide a return flight path for the aerial vehicle to automatically navigate to the return location.
US10942526B2	System for navigation of an autonomously navigating submersible body during entry into a docking station, method A system for navigation of an autonomously navigating submersible body during entry into a docking station below the water surface includes a determiner for determining an actual motion vector of the autonomously navigation submersible body in relation to the set motion vector describing the optimum entry direction into the docking station and a calculating unit. The calculating unit serves to determine the deviation between the actual motion vector and the set motion vector to determine control vectors based on the deviation and to thereby control the autonomously navigating submersible body during entry.
US10942511B2	Electronic device and control method thereof Disclosed is an electronic device. The electronic device includes a display and a processor to provide a first UI for setting a reconnaissance target of an unmanned aerial vehicle, and based on the reconnaissance target being selected through the first UI, control the display to provide a second UI for selecting a flight path for reconnoitering the reconnaissance target, and the second UI includes image information regarding each of different flight paths for reconnoitering the reconnaissance target.
US10942509B2	Heterogeneous processing in unmanned vehicles A system-on-module (SOM) for controlling an unmanned vehicle (UV) is provided. The SOM comprises a circuit board, a first processing system in operative communication with the circuit board, and a second processing system in operative communication with the circuit board. The first processing system includes one or more first processing units and a volatile programmable logic array. The first processing system is configured to execute a first process for the UV. The second processing system includes one or more second processing units and a non-volatile programmable logic array. The second processing system is configured to monitor execution of the first process by the first processing system.
US10942508B2	Risk assessment device, risk assessment system, risk assessment method, risk assessment program, and data structure A risk assessment device for performing risk assessment includes a diagnosis result storage unit that accumulatively stores diagnosis results of a plurality of diagnoses regarding each process device that is provided in a steam plant to be assessed, in association with installation sites of the process devices, a risk information calculation unit that calculates risk information regarding a likelihood of malfunction of a process device that is provided at a target installation site, based on diagnosis results regarding process devices that are provided at the target installation site, and a device group risk information calculation unit that calculates device group risk information regarding a likelihood of malfunction of a target device group, based on the risk information regarding installation sites of respective process devices that constitute the target device group.
US10942506B2	Systems and methods for a multi-purpose sensing device for industrial automation equipment In one embodiment, a multi-purpose sensor may couple to a machine operating in an industrial environment and include numerous sensors disposed within the multi-purpose sensor to acquire sets of data associated with the machine or an environment surrounding the machine. A first portion of the sets of data may include historical sensor measurements over time for each of the sensors, and a second portion of the sets of data may include sensor measurements subsequent to when the first portion is acquired for each of the sensors. A processor of the multi-purpose sensor may determine a baseline collective signature based on the first portion, determine a subsequent collective signature based on the second portion, determine whether the collective signatures vary, and generate signals when a variance exists. The signals may cause a computing device, a cloud-based computing system, and/or a control/monitoring device to perform various actions.
US10942502B2	Control method for electronically controlled servo mechanism and electronically controlled servo mechanism and robot thereof The present disclosure provides a control method for an electronically controlled servo mechanism as well as an apparatus and a robot thereof. The method is for an electronically controlled servo mechanism including a servo having a PI controller, which includes: obtaining related parameter(s) of the PI controller before tuning, where the related parameters includes a proportional coefficient and an integral coefficient; obtaining a current rotational angle of an output shaft of the servo, and calculating an angular deviation between the obtained current rotational angle and an expected rotational angle of an output shaft of the servo; and tuning the related parameter(s) of the PI controller based on the proportional coefficient, the integral coefficient, and the angular deviation. In such a manner, the parameter(s) of the PI controller are tuned to make it equivalent to a P controller, thereby avoiding the large oscillation caused by external interference.
US10942490B2	Hologram reproducing apparatus and method thereof A hologram reproducing apparatus is provided that includes a display configured to emit a write beam corresponding to a hologram pattern, a spatial light modulator (SLM) configured to write the hologram pattern according to the write beam and modulate the reproduction beam into a plurality of diffraction beams corresponding to the hologram pattern if a reproduction beam is incident, a light guide plate disposed in a front surface of the SLM, and configured to guide the reproduction beam toward the SLM, a filter configured to filter the plurality of diffraction beams, a lens configured to focus the plurality of diffraction beams filtered through the filter, and a plurality of optical fibers arranged in order to dispose at least one optical fiber to correspond to each of a plurality of pixels included in the display, and configured to transmit the write beam to the SLM.
US10942482B2	Method for manufacturing blade for electrophotographic devices A method for manufacturing a blade for electrophotographic devices and a blade for electrophotographic devices are provided. The method includes: an impregnation step of impregnating, from the surface of at least a part of a blade-shaped substrate containing urethane rubber, with a blocked isocyanate in which an isocyanate group is blocked with a blocking agent, wherein the part includes a portion that comes into contact with a mating member; and a curing step of dissociating the blocking agent from the blocked isocyanate impregnated into the substrate in the impregnation step, and then curing the released isocyanate in the substrate to form a cured portion in at least the part of the substrate including the portion that comes into contact with the mating member. In the method, the isocyanate released from the blocked isocyanate includes an aromatic isocyanate.
US10942479B1	Fixing device and image forming apparatus A fixing device includes a hollow rotating body, a sheet-shaped heater that is disposed inside the rotating body in such a manner as to extend in a width direction perpendicular to a transport direction of a recording medium, which is transported along with rotation of the rotating body, and that heats the rotating body, and multiple thermal-conductive members that are arranged in such a manner as to be in contact with a surface of the sheet-shaped heater, the surface being opposite to a contact surface of the sheet-shaped heater that is in contact with the rotating body, with a gap formed between the multiple thermal-conductive members in at least one of the width direction and the transport direction and that conduct heat of the sheet-shaped heater in the width direction, the multiple thermal-conductive members being arranged such that a first thermal-conductive member and a second thermal-conductive member that are included in the multiple thermal-conductive members and that are adjacent to each other partially overlap each other when the thermal-conductive members in a state of being arranged in a plane are viewed in the transport direction.
US10942475B2	Fixing device and image forming apparatus including nip former of specific surface roughness A fixing device includes a fixing rotator that rotates and includes an inner face. A pressure rotator is disposed opposite the fixing rotator and rotates. A nip former sandwiches the fixing rotator together with the pressure rotator to form a nip between the fixing rotator and the pressure rotator. The nip former includes an outer face disposed opposite the inner face of the fixing rotator. The inner face of the fixing rotator and the outer face of the nip former sandwich a lubricant. At least one of the inner face of the fixing rotator and the outer face of the nip former includes a projection having a volume smaller than 0.3 ml/m2 and a recess having a spatial volume greater than 0.08 ml/m2. The volume and the spatial volume are three-dimensional surface roughness parameters, respectively, defined by the International Organization for Standardization 25178 standard in an initial state before the fixing rotator rotates.
US10942474B2	Image forming apparatus having a cleaning blade supported by a supporting member An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image carriers, an intermediate transfer belt, a cleaning blade, a counter-roller, and a supporting member. The intermediate transfer belt is endless and, to it, toner images formed on the outer circumferential faces of the plurality of image carriers are transferred by being sequentially superposed on each other. The cleaning blade is arranged with its tip end portion in contact with the outer circumferential face of the intermediate transfer belt and removes deposits left on the outer circumferential face of the intermediate transfer belt. The counter-roller is arranged at a position opposite the cleaning blade across the intermediate transfer belt and is in contact with the inner circumferential face of the intermediate transfer belt. The supporting member supports the cleaning blade. The supporting member supports the cleaning blade rotatably about the rotation axis of the counter-roller.
US10942472B2	Electrophotography device development roll including shaft, elastic layer and surface layer An electrophotography device development roller in which an increase in the electric charge of a toner is suppressed is provided. This electrophotography device development roller 10 is provided with a shaft 12, an elastic layer 14 formed on the outer circumference of the shaft 12, and a surface layer 16 formed on the outer circumference of the elastic layer 14. The surface layer 16 contains components (a) to (c) below. Component (a) a binder comprising acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber having an acrylonitrile amount of 30 mass % or more; component (b) an ion-conducting agent comprising at least one selected from a phosphonium salt and a pyridinium salt; and component (c) an electric charge regulator comprising an acrylic polymer having a silicone group or fluorine-containing group and a cationic group.
US10942467B1	Charging device, image carrying unit, and image forming apparatus A charging device includes a charger, a cleaner, and a separator. The charger is configured to charge an image holding unit. The cleaner is configured to clean the charger. The separator is configured, when the charging device has not yet been used, to separate the charger from the image holding unit and separate the cleaner from the charger.
US10942460B2	Mark position determination method A method of determining positions of marks, the marks comprising periodic structures, at least some of the structures comprising periodic sub-structures, the sub-structures having a smaller period than the structures, the marks formed with positional offsets between the sub-structures and structures, the positional offsets caused by a combination of both known and unknown components, the method comprising illuminating a plurality of the marks with radiation having different characteristics, detecting radiation diffracted by the marks using one or more detectors which produce output signals, discriminating between constituent parts of the signals, the discriminating based on a variation of the signals as a function of spatial positions of the marks on a substrate, selecting at least one of the constituent parts of the signals, and using the at least one selected constituent part, and information relating to differences between the known components, to calculate a corrected position of at least one mark.
US10942451B2	Coloring photosensitive composition, cured film, pattern forming method, infrared cut filter with light-shielding film, solid-state imaging device, image display device, and infrared sensor A coloring photosensitive composition includes an oxime ester-based photopolymerization initiator containing a fluorine atom, a polymerizable compound having an ethylenically unsaturated double bond, an alkali-soluble resin, and a colorant, in which in a case where a film having a film thickness after drying of 2.0 μm is formed using the coloring photosensitive composition, the optical density of the film at a wavelength of 365 nm is 1.5 or more.
US10942445B2	Blankmask and photomask, and methods of fabricating the same A blankmask according to the present disclosure includes a light-shielding film provided on a transparent substrate; and a hard mask film provided on the light-shielding film and comprising molybdenum chromium (MoCr). Thus, the hard mask film has not only an enhanced etching speed but also sufficient etching resistance to fluorine (F)-based dry etching, so that an etching load against a resist film can be decreased and a hard mask film pattern and a light-shielding film pattern can be improved in a line edge roughness (LER), thereby forming a photomask for high-precision pattern printing.
US10942438B2	Structure and method of manufacturing structure An object of the present invention is to provide a structure having an excellent diffuse reflectivity and a method of manufacturing a structure. The object is achieved by a structure including a plurality of reflection layers formed by fixing a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase, the reflection layers being laminated, in which in a reflection layer, a bright portion and a dark portion derived from the cholesteric liquid crystalline phase have wavy structures in a cross section, and undulations of the wavy structures of bright portions closest to each other coincide in the adjacent reflection layers; and by a method of manufacturing a structure including forming a reflection layer formed by fixing a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase, in which a bright portion and a dark portion have wavy structures, in a cross section, and forming the reflection layer on a first reflection layer by a coating method using an composition containing a liquid crystal compound and a chiral agent.
US10942424B2	Camera body and interchangeable lens A camera body at which one or more camera accessories, at which light from a subject enters, are detachably mountable, includes: a body-side terminal; and a communication unit that communicates with at least one of the camera accessories, wherein: the communication unit requests, via the body-side terminal, the camera accessory for a discriminating signal indicating whether or not another camera accessory capable of communicating with the camera body is mountable on a subject side of the camera accessory.
US10942419B2	Camera module A camera module includes a housing having an internal space, a first moving body movably disposed in the internal space, a second moving body movably disposed in an internal space of the first moving body, a driving member including optical image stabilization (OIS) driving wires formed of a shape memory alloy, a first board to which at least one end of each OIS driving wire is connected, and a second board, disposed internally of the first board, to which each OIS driving wire is connected, and an autofocusing (AF) driving member including AF driving wires formed of a shape memory alloy, a frame bar, and a mounting bar disposed in a central portion of the frame portion.
US10942415B2	Anti-peep screen with dynamically adjustable optical screen An anti-peep screen is provided. The anti-peep screen includes a casing, a plurality of microspheres within the casing, wherein each of the microspheres includes a colorless transparent fluid fill and a plurality of charged particles, and a base electrode within the casing adjacent to the plurality of microspheres.
US10942413B2	Power management for electrochromic window networks Various embodiments herein relate to networks of electrochromic windows. The networks may be configured in particular ways to minimize the likelihood that the windows on the network draw more power than can be provided. The network may include particular hardware components that provide additional power to windows as needed. The network may also be configured to adjust how the windows therein transition to prevent overloading the network. The techniques described herein can be used to design networks of electrochromic windows that are undersized when considering the amount of power that would be needed to simultaneously transition all the windows on the network using normal transition parameters, while still allowing simultaneous transitions to occur.
US10942410B2	Display device and manufacturing method thereof A display device includes a bottom substrate including a display area and a non-display area around the display area, a thin film transistor region in the display area, the thin film transistor region including a plurality of thin film transistors and a plurality of pixel electrodes each electrically connected to a respective one of the thin film transistors, a top substrate facing the bottom substrate with the thin film transistor region therebetween, a seal in the non-display area to surround the thin film transistor region, the seal being configured to bond the bottom substrate to the top substrate, a wiring group between the seal and the bottom substrate, the wiring group including a plurality of conductive lines spaced apart from each other by a predetermined interval, and a light-scattering layer between the seal and the top substrate, the light-scattering layer including light-scattering particles.
US10942404B2	Display device including a color filter having an opening aligned with a virtual center line of a pixel A display device includes a substrate having a display area including pixels disposed in a matrix form, and a peripheral area; a gate line and a data line on the substrate and insulated from each other; a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line; a passivation layer; a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor through a contact hole of the passivation layer; and a color filter overlapped with the thin film transistor and the pixel electrode. The passivation layer is between the thin film transistor and the pixel electrode. The color filter includes an opening overlapping the contact hole. A center of the opening is on a virtual center line of one pixel, and a center of the contact hole is on one side of the virtual center line.
US10942390B2	Display substrate and fabricating method thereof, and display panel Embodiments of the present invention provide a display substrate, a fabricating method thereof, and a display panel. The display substrate includes a substrate, a display structure layer disposed on the substrate, and an alignment layer. A grating polarizing layer is disposed in the display structure layer, and an optical alignment direction of the alignment layer is parallel to or perpendicular to a transmission axis direction of the grating polarizing layer.
US10942389B2	Color conversion element and display device including the same A color conversion element includes a base substrate, and a first color filter layer, a second color conversion layer, and a third color conversion layer disposed on the base substrate, wherein the first color filter layer, the second color conversion layer, and the third color conversion layer are sequentially arranged on a plane, and wherein an interval between the first color filter layer and the second color conversion layer or an interval between the first color filter layer and the third color conversion layer is different from an interval between the second color conversion layer and the third color conversion layer.
US10942385B2	Display device A display device includes a display panel having a first side including a display area configured to emit light and a second side opposite the first side, an auxiliary layer disposed on the second side of the display area and including an opening, a sensor overlapping the opening, and an adhesive layer connected between the sensor and the auxiliary layer.
US10942384B2	Display device According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate includes a first area including a display portion, a second area adjacent to the first area, and an organic film. The second substrate has a substrate end along a boundary between the first area and the second area, and overlaps the first area. The first substrate includes an alignment film located in the display portion, terminals located in the second area and connected to a signal source, and a first groove formed in the organic film and located between the substrate end of the second substrate and the terminals in the second area. The terminals are arranged in a first direction. The first groove extends in the first direction along the terminals.
US10942372B2	Method and device for controlling glasses, and storage medium The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for controlling glasses, and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring positioning information of a user wearing the glasses and naked eye visual acuity values of the user; determining target diopters of lenses of the glasses according to the naked eye visual acuity values of the user and the positioning information of the user using a diopter mapping table, wherein the lenses are used to correct the user's visual acuity, and the diopter mapping table is a preset corresponding relationship among positioning information, naked eye visual acuity values and target diopters; and adjusting diopters of the lenses to the target diopters.
US10942358B2	Light emitting apparatus and image display system A light emitting apparatus includes a light emitting unit. The light emitting unit includes a light source, a collimator lens, and an optical element that spreads light transmitted through the collimator lens in a direction corresponding to a width direction. The optical element has a plurality of lens groups arranged in a first direction (stacking direction), each of the plurality of lens groups has a plurality of small lenses arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and crossing an optical axis, each of the plurality of small lenses is formed to spread entering light in a direction corresponding to the width direction so that the lights spread by the small lenses adjacent in a second direction are superimposed, and the plurality of lens groups have the small lenses with the small lenses adjacent in the first direction and the second direction in different sizes from each other.
US10942357B2	Light illumination device, light processing apparatus using light illumination device, light illumination method, and light processing method A light illumination device, a light processing apparatus using the light illumination device, a light illumination method, and a light processing method. The light illumination device, the light illumination method, and the light processing method include converting a phase distribution of a transmitted wavefront of light emitted from a light source, changing a ratio between a first diameter of a cross section perpendicular to an optical axis of the light whose phase distribution of the transmitted wavefront is converted in the converting along a first axis and a second diameter along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis and the optical axis of the light, and condensing the light whose ratio between the first diameter and the second diameter is changed in the changing.
US10942356B2	Wearable glass device The present invention relates to a wearable glass device. The wearable glass device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a left eye glass and a right eye glass; a frame for supporting the left eye glass and the right eye glass; a left hinge and a right hinge connected to the frame and pivotable; a left temple and a right temple connected respectively to the left hinge and the right hinge; and an optical device attached to any one of the left temple and the right temple, wherein an image projected from the optical device is outputted and displayed forward, when any one of the left temple and the right temple to which the optical device is attached is folded, and the image projected from the optical device is displayed on any one of the left eye glass and the right eye glass, when any one of the left temple and the right temple to which the optical device is attached is unfolded. Thus, when any one of the left temple and the right temple is folded, the image projected from the optical device can be outputted to the outside.
US10942337B2	Lens assembly A lens assembly includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens, wherein the first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens, and the fifth lens are arranged in order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The first lens is with positive refractive power and includes a concave surface facing the image side. The second lens is with positive refractive power and includes a concave surface facing the object side. The third lens is with negative refractive power. The fourth lens is with positive refractive power. The fifth lens is with negative refractive power. The lens assembly satisfies: f3+f4>0 mm, wherein f3 is an effective focal length of the third lens and f4 is an effective focal length of the fourth lens.
US10942336B2	Camera lens assembly The present disclosure describes a camera lens assembly having a total effective focal length f and an entrance pupil diameter EPD satisfying f/EPD≤1.9. The camera lens assembly includes, sequentially along an optical axis from an object side to an image side, the first to the seventh lenses. The first lens has a positive refractive power, and a convex object side surface; the second lens has a positive refractive power, and a convex object side surface and a convex image side surface; the third lens has a negative refractive power; the fourth lens and the fifth lens have a positive refractive power or negative refractive power; the sixth lens has a positive refractive power or negative refractive power, and a concave image side surface of the sixth lens is in a paraxial region; and the seventh lens has a negative refractive power, and a concave image side surface in the paraxial region.
US10942311B2	Optical device Provided is an optical device which can control a beam quality of outgoing light. An optical device (10) includes an entrance fiber bundle (12), an exit fiber (13), and a reduced diameter part (11). The reduced diameter part (11) has (i) an entrance end surface (11a) and (ii) an exit end surface (11b) which is narrower in area than the entrance end surface (11a). In a case where the entrance end surface (11a) is viewed from a normal direction of the entrance end surface (11a), a center (C2) of the exit end surface (11b) deviates from a center (C1) of the entrance end surface (11a).
US10942310B2	On-board display device An on-board display device installable in a vehicle cabin of a vehicle includes a liquid crystal panel and a light source. The liquid crystal panel displays an image of an outside of the vehicle, the image having been captured by a camera. The light source illuminates the liquid crystal panel. A direction of maximum luminance of the light source is a direction passing through an inside of an eye range preset in the vehicle. An equi-luminance line has a shape longer in a second direction that intersects a first direction than in the first direction in a luminance distribution map that represents luminance of the light source in each direction represented by a polar angle and an azimuth angle. The second direction and a longitudinal direction of an aggregate of points which represent polar angles and azimuth angles of tangential lines of the eye range, the tangential lines passing through the center of the liquid crystal panel, on the luminance distribution map are inclined to a same side with respect to a longitudinal direction of the liquid crystal panel.
US10942304B2	Solid-state imaging element, manufacturing method of the same, and electronic device The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging element, a manufacturing method of the same, and an electronic device that achieve the extension of a dynamic range by making a difference in light-receiving sensitivity between low-sensitivity pixels and high-sensitivity pixels without changing spectral characteristics. The solid-state imaging element includes a pixel array portion in which two kinds of pixels different in light-receiving sensitivity, high-sensitivity pixels and low-sensitivity pixels are arrayed. The low-sensitivity pixels have a gray filter on or under a color filter to decrease light transmission factor in a visible-light region by a predetermined ratio. The present technology is applicable to solid-state imaging elements and the like, for example.
US10942298B2	Reflecting unit A reflecting unit is provided, including an optical member holder, an optical member, a frame, a first bearing member, a first hinge, and a first driving module. The optical member is disposed on the optical member holder. The first bearing member is disposed on the frame or the optical member holder. The first hinge is pivotally connected to the optical member holder and the frame. The first driving module can drive the optical member holder to rotate relative to the frame. When the optical member holder rotates relative to the frame, the first hinge rotates relative to the optical member holder or the frame via the first bearing member.
US10942297B2	Optical output device and design method An optical output device comprises a plate having at least one surface formed as an array of tessellated lenses. The tessellated lenses comprise at least first and second regions of regular hexagonal lens tessellation, wherein the first and second regions are slanted with respect to each other. By removing full periodicity in this way, but maintaining localized periodicity, visible non-uniformities are reduced in both color and intensity. The optical output device does not need to be illuminated uniformly to generate an output without visible intensity or color edges.
US10942287B2	Semblance-based anisotropy parameter estimation using isotropic depth-migrated common image gathers Methods and systems are presented in this disclosure for semblance-based anisotropy parameter estimation using isotropic depth-migrated common image gathers. Far-offset image gathers can be generated from seismic data associated with a subterranean formation migrated based on an isotropic depth migration that uses an isotropic velocity model. Based on the far-offset image gathers, a plurality of semblance values can be calculated as a function of an anisotropy parameter of the subterranean formation for the different depths and the surface locations. Effective values of the anisotropy parameter of the subterranean formation can be then chosen that result in maxima of the plurality of semblance values for the different depths and the surface locations. Anisotropy model of the subterranean formation can be obtained based on the effective values of the anisotropy parameter.
US10942284B2	Radiation detector panel assembly structure According to an embodiment, a method comprises: configuring a panel plate as an entrance window for high energy electromagnetic, for example x-ray or gamma ray, radiation; attaching a bias plate on the panel plate, wherein the bias plate is configured to conduct electricity and pass the radiation through it; and attaching an array of tiles, where in each tiles comprises a direct conversion compound semiconductor sensor and a readout integrated circuit, IC, layer on the bias plate so that the direct conversion compound semiconductor sensor is configured on the bias plate; wherein the direct conversion compound semiconductor sensor is configured to convert photons of the high energy electromagnetic, for example x-ray or gamma ray, radiation into an electric current; and wherein the readout IC layer is situated next to the direct conversion compound semiconductor sensor and configured to receive the electric current and process the electric current. Other embodiments relate to a detector comprising an array of assemblies, and an imaging system comprising: an x-ray source and the detector.
US10942282B2	Combined imaging detector for x-ray and nuclear imaging The invention relates to a combined imaging detector for detection of gamma and x-ray quanta comprising an x-ray detector (31) for generating x-ray detection signals in response to detected x-ray quanta and a gamma detector (32) for generating gamma detection signals in response to detected gamma quanta. The x-ray detector (31) and the gamma detector (32) are arranged in a stacked configuration along a radiation-receiving direction (33). The gamma detector (32) comprises a gamma collimator plate (320) comprising a plurality of pinholes (321), and a gamma conversion layer (322, 324) for converting detected gamma quanta into gamma detection signals.
US10942273B2	Passive matrix addressing of optical phased arrays An optical phased array (OPA) includes, in part, a multitude of phase control elements disposed along N rows and M columns forming an N×M array. The phase control elements disposed along ith row are coupled to ith row signal line and phase control elements disposed along jth column are coupled to jth column signal line. The OPA further includes, in part, a row select block having N switches each configured to couple one of the N rows of the phase control elements to a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) in response to a row select signal. The OPA further includes, in part, a column select block having M switches each configured to couple one of the M rows of the phase control elements to a ground terminal in response to a column select signal.
US10942268B2	MIMO radar device and vehicle There is provided a MIMO radar device including: a first array antenna configured to have L (L≥2) antenna elements disposed in one direction under a first rule; and a second array antenna configured to have M (M≥2) antenna elements disposed in a same direction as the one direction of the first array antenna under a second rule, and to have at least two of the M antenna elements provided across the first array antenna.
US10942256B2	Intelligent metamaterial radar for target identification Examples disclosed herein relate to an Intelligent Metamaterial (“iMTM”) radar for target identification. The iMTM radar has an iMTM antenna module to radiate a transmission signal with an iMTM antenna structure and generate radar data capturing a surrounding environment. An iMTM interface module detects and identifies a target in the surrounding environment from the radar data and controls the iMTM antenna module.
US10942248B2	Method, apparatus, and computer program product for real time location system referencing in physically and radio frequency challenged environments An example method includes receiving environmental data from a plurality of receivers; calculating, using a processor, an environmental offset based on the environmental data, wherein the environmental offset is operable to adjust a reference phase offset; and dynamically adjusting the environmental offset in response to a detected change in the environmental data.
US10942241B2	System for indoor and outdoor position measurement A system and method for measuring the position of one or more object in an area of interest. The system has a primary beacon located at a first fixed position in or near the area of interest which generates a time referenced primary signal, two or more secondary beacons located at different fixed positions in or near the area of interest which generate time referenced secondary signals and one or more portable tag, the portable tag being attachable to the object. The portable tag has a portable tag circuit for calculating the distance of the portable tag to the primary and secondary beacons by means of a time of flight calculation which uses, the known position of the primary and secondary beacons, time referenced signals and delay information associated with the time referenced signals, such that the portable tag calculates its own position.
US10942240B2	Method of calibrating impedance measurements of a battery A method of calibration is described that simplifies the measurement of battery impedance conducted in-situ while determining battery state-of-health. A single shunt measurement with a known Sum of Sines (SOS) current, at the desired frequency spread and known root mean squared (RMS) current is used to create a calibration archive. A calibration selected from this archive is used to calibrate an impedance measurement made on the battery.
US10942239B2	MRI method for determining signature indices of an observed tissue from signal patterns obtained by motion-probing pulsed gradient MRI A method for determining a signature index of an observed tissue comprises the step of providing a generic attenuation model of a motion-probing gradient pulse MRI attenuated signal S(b), and providing a reference model parameter vector (pR(i)) corresponding to a reference state of the tissue. On the basis of the evolution of the determined partial differential sensitivities dSi(b) of the model attenuated signal S(b) to each model parameter p(i) at the neutral state attenuated signal SN(b) versus b values, a discrete and narrow size set of key b is built and a series of MRI images of the observed tissue are acquired by using the key b values. Then, for each voxel a signature index (sADC(V), Sdist(V), SCdist(V), Snl(V), SI(V)) of the voxel V is determined as a scalar function depending on a distance between the voxel signal pattern acquired at the key b values and the signal pattern of the reference state of the tissue at the same key b values. An apparatus is configured for implementing such a method.
US10942235B2	Microstrip transmission line array RF coil, RF shield configuration and integrated apparatus of RF coil and radiation imaging device PET or SPECT insert for MRI or MRS system with medium (3 T for example) to ultra high (7 T for example) magnetic field is provided. RF shielded radiation detector modules are separately disposed in a form of full or partial ring shape. The RF shielded radiation detector modules are electric ground conductors for microstrip transmission line coil RF array. Decoupling circuits in between grounded shield and/or in between microstrip conductors make electric isolation between coil elements.
US10942231B2	Transmit/receive radio frequency (RF) system for a magnetic resonance examination system and method thereof A transmit/receive RF system for a magnetic resonance examination system is described. The transmit/receive RF system comprises an RF antenna, an RF power amplifier configured to supply electrical RF power to the RF antenna, a coupling device coupled between the RF power amplifier and the RF antenna and configured to couple out fractions of a reflected power flowing from the RF antenna toward the RF power amplifier and a forward power flowing from the RF power amplifier toward the RF antenna to output a first coupled signal VREV and a second coupled signal VFWD, a wave detector coupled to the coupling device and configured to detect amplitude and phase information of the first coupled signal VREV and the second coupled signal VFWD, and a parameter calculator coupled to the wave detector and configured to calculate an operational parameter of the RF power amplifier based on complex scattering parameters of the coupling device and the detected amplitude and phase information of the first coupled signal VREV and second coupled signal VFWD.
US10942229B2	Sensor arrangement having thermo-EMF compensation A method for correcting the output of a Hall effect device for thermal electromotive force (thermo-EMF) utilizing the steps of: (1) supplying energy to the Hall effect device, (2) measuring a first output of the Hall effect device as a result of the supplying energy, (3) stopping the supply of energy to the Hall effect device, (4) waiting a period of time, (5) measuring a second output of the Hall device in response to a temperature difference between the output measurement location and a reference point, and (6) combining the first and second outputs to determine an output corrected for thermo-EMF.
US10942226B2	Cable with resin compact A cable with a resin compact includes: a cable; a circuit board having one end on which a connecting portion connected to the cable is formed and the other end on which a sensor electrically connected to the cable through the connecting portion is formed; a holder housing the circuit board; and a cover member made of a resin partially covering the holder. The holder is partitioned by a first covered region surrounded by a first covering portion of the cover member, a second covered region surrounded by a second covering portion of the cover member, and a non-covered region not surrounded by the cover member. The first covered region, the non-covered region and the second covered region are aligned on a line in this order from a rear side toward a front side of the holder.
US10942224B2	Battery cell for a vehicle battery, and vehicle battery and motor vehicle A battery cell for a vehicle battery. A cell housing which encloses electrochemical substances of a galvanic cell arrangement in a hermetically sealed manner, and an acquisition device in the cell housing, which acquires status data of the battery cell in the cell housing, and/or a control device which switches at least one switching element in the cell housing as a function of control data. A wall of the cell housing has a window region in which a window material is arranged, which has a predetermined attenuation value for a predetermined radiation spectrum, and a communication device arranged in the cell housing is configured to transmit the status data from the window region out of the cell housing.
US10942221B2	Method and apparatus capable of accurately estimating/determining power percentage of battery based on confidence levels determined from resultant information of multiple different fuel gauge operations and/or information of battery history, aging factor, sleep time, or battery temperature A method for estimating a battery power percentage of a battery includes: performing a first fuel gauge operation upon the battery; and using the first fuel gauge operation to generate the battery power percentage of the battery by referring to information measured by a second fuel gauge operation performed upon the battery wherein the second fuel gauge operation is different from the first fuel gauge operation.
US10942220B2	Voltage driver with supply current stabilization Disclosed herein are voltage driver circuits and methods of operating the same to provide a variable output voltage that is suitable for use in ATE to provide a large number of test signals with accurate voltage levels at high data rates using components that consume relatively low power. According to an aspect, a change in output current in a voltage driver related to changing output voltage may be offset by a stabilization current generated by a correction driver for the voltage driver, such that supply currents drawn from the supply voltages can remain substantially stable. The correction driver may be connected to one or more supply voltages, and programmed to output a stabilization current that offsets changes in supply currents arising from changing of the programmed output of the voltage driver circuit. Such a driver may enable a test system to more precisely test semiconductor devices.
US10942217B2	Calibration of digital isolators A method for calibrating an isolator product includes generating a differential pair of signals on a differential pair of nodes at an input of a demodulator circuit of a receiver signal path of a first integrated circuit die of the isolator product based on a received differential pair of signals. The method includes generating a diagnostic output signal having a level corresponding to an average amplitude of the differential pair of signals. The method includes driving the diagnostic output signal to an output terminal of the isolator product. The method may include transmitting a diagnostic signal using a carrier signal having a frequency by a second integrated circuit die via an isolation channel. The method may include, during the transmitting, sweeping the frequency of the carrier signal across a frequency band. The method may include, during the sweeping, capturing the diagnostic output signal via the output terminal.
US10942215B2	Integrated circuit authentication from a die material measurement The various technologies presented herein relate to measuring a signal generated by a die-based test circuit incorporated into an IC and utilizing the measured signal to authenticate the IC. The signal can be based upon a sensor response generated by the test circuit fabricated into the die, wherein the sensor response is based upon a property of the die material. The signal can be compared with a reference value obtained from one or more test circuit(s) respectively located on one or more reference dies, wherein the reference dies are respectively cut from different wafers, and the location at which the reference dies were cut is known. If the measured signal matches the reference value, the die is deemed to be from the same cut location as the dies from which the reference value was obtained. If the measured signal does not match the reference value, the die is not authenticated.
US10942213B2	Device and method for testing motherboard The device for testing a motherboard includes a power adapter, a first DC-DC converter, and a microcontroller. The power adapter converts an AC input voltage to a DC supply voltage. The DC-DC converter converts the DC supply voltage to a DC voltage at a channel coupled to the motherboard, and adjusts a voltage level of the DC voltage in response to a control signal. The DC-DC converter is enabled according to an enable signal. The microcontroller is configured to provide the control signal and the enable signal, and to determine whether a power on/off operation of the motherboard is normal. The microcontroller is configured to perform a test procedure on the motherboard to obtain a workable voltage range of the motherboard. The voltage level of the DC voltage in the test procedure is dynamically adjusted within a predetermined range around a nominal voltage value of the DC voltage.
US10942208B2	Monitoring system, safety cable and tube for such a system, and method for operating a monitoring system A monitoring system contains a safety cable that has at least one line along which a fault sensor device extends. The safety cable has a capacitor with two electrodes and an inductor which is made of a conductor that is electrically connected to one of the electrodes such that a series resonant circuit is formed. By ascertaining a resonant frequency of the series resonant circuit, the state of the safety cable, in particular the wear of the safety cable, is determined and a possible future fault is predicted in particular. A corresponding safety cable in particular in the form of a prefabricated material available by the meter and a method for operating the monitoring system are described.
US10942207B2	System for evaluating battery connection quality A system for evaluating battery connection quality in one or more battery modules of a battery assembly includes a battery testing unit having a housing including an upper surface and a lower surface. A plurality of testing modules are disposed on the lower surface of the housing to communicate with and electrically contact the one or more battery modules of the battery assembly. The plurality of testing modules each include at least one connector extending from a lower surface of the testing module and at least one contact disposed on one or more side surfaces of the testing module. A controller is in electrical communication with the at least one connector and at least one contacts to simultaneously evaluate voltage and resistance measurements of the one or more battery modules of the battery assembly.
US10942206B2	Variable passive intermodulation load In one embodiment, the PIM load includes a variable attenuator; a detector configured to detect a signal characteristic associated with a signal received by the PIM load; and a controller configured to control the variable attenuator based on output from the detector.
US10942201B2	Current detector and current meter A current detector includes: a current sensor that is constructed using a Rogowski coil, detects a current flowing in a measured object, and outputs a detection signal corresponding to a current value of the current; a transfer line that is constructed of a distributed constant line and transfers the detection signal; an impedance converting circuit that is provided between the current sensor and the transfer line and has an input impedance equal or substantially equal to a characteristic impedance of the current sensor; an integrator circuit that integrates the detection signal inputted via the transfer line and outputs an output signal indicating a current value of the current; and a resistance circuit that has a resistance value that is equal or substantially equal to a characteristic impedance of the transfer line and is connected in series between the transfer line and the integrator circuit.
US10942195B1	Measuring airflow for computing devices Systems and methods for cooling computing devices in a data center and measuring airflow are disclosed. The computing devices have cooling fans that can have their fan speed set by management instructions. The devices are mounted in racks between cold aisles and hot aisles and are connected via network switches. The computing devices are oriented so that their cooling fans operate to exhaust waste heat to one side of the rack. Measurement instructions are sent to selected computing devices to cause them to go into a lower power state that reduces or stops computational work and reduces electrical power to the cooling fan so that the fan does not spin based on the electromotive force and can instead spin in an opposite direction based on ambient airflow caused by the difference in air pressure from the hot aisle to the cold aisle.
US10942194B2	Automatic analyzer An automatic analyzer configured to automatically prevent interruption of an analysis owing to water shortage in use includes a plurality of analysis sections using water supplied from the outside, an operation section for giving operation instructions to the analysis sections, and a control section executing a program for controlling operations of the analysis sections. The control section switches maintenance using water between simultaneous execution and time difference execution for all the analysis sections in accordance with an instruction input through the operation section.
US10942193B2	Automated positive pressure solid phase extraction apparatus and method comprising a reagent dispenser apparatus and method An automated positive pressure solid phase extraction apparatus and method comprising two tiered lifts devices each individually controllable to individually vertically translate within an elevator framework between a base on which the elevator framework is mounted and a manifold plate supported by the framework in a substantially horizontal plane parallel with and vertically above the two tiered lifts devices; a rectilinearly translating shuttle assembly comprising a shuttle supporting labware for rectilinear travel into and out of the elevator framework to handoff the labware to one of the two tiered elevator lifts or both; and a reagent dispensing system comprising a reagent dispensing manifold for dispensing liquids into wells of each column of wells of a labware filter plate carried by the shuttle.
US10942183B2	Methods of detecting progesterone receptor and of detecting an expression level A method that includes testing for the presence of a phosphorylated Ser294 (phospho-Ser294) progesterone receptor (PR). A method that includes determining the expression level of a gene in a patient sample and comparing it to a control sample.
US10942178B2	Long rigid spacers to enhance binding kinetics in immunoassays A device detects a target molecule in a sample in a sample container to measure the target molecule. A first particle is functionalized with a first binding molecule capable of specifically binding to said target molecule. A surface structure includes a second binding molecule. The surface structure covers a flat sensor or is present on a second particle. The first particle is capable of binding the second binding molecule of the surface structure directly or indirectly. The first and/or second binding molecule is indirectly attached to the particle surface of the first and/or second particle and/or the flat sensor surface via a long and rigid linker molecule. A length and a consistency of the linker molecule is selected such as to result in an average extension length of the linker of more than 60 nm. A number of particle clusters or of bound particles is directly or inversely related to an amount of the target molecules present in the sample.
US10942177B2	Hollow polymer fiber optic system for single analyte and multiplexed analyte detection Presented herein are methods, systems, and apparatus for single analyte detection or multiplexed analyte detection based on amplified luminescent proximity homogeneous assay (“alpha”) technology, but using hollow polymer fiber optics doped with ‘acceptor bead’ dye (e.g., thioxene, anthracene, rubrene, and/or lanthanide chelates) or ‘donor bead’ dye (e.g., phthalocyanine) that carry a signal generated by the dopant via singlet oxygen channeling.
US10942174B2	Calcium binding protein, spermatid specific 1, as a biomarker for diagnosis or treatment of stress A method of determining risk of stress in a subject involves determining in a biological sample, the level of one or more forms of calcium binding protein spermatid specific 1 protein, wherein the one or more forms comprise one or more of 12 kDa, 15 kDa, 18 kDa, 20 kDa, 27 kDa, 33 kDa, 55 kDa, or 90 kDa forms; comparing the level of the one or more forms in the sample with the level of the one or more forms in a normal control; determining whether the subject has risk of stress in accordance with the result; wherein a difference in the level of the one or more forms relative to the level of the normal control, is indicative of stress or responsiveness to stressful stimuli; and treating the subject with a stress management program that involves using one or more forms of 12 kDa, 15 kDa, 18 kDa, 20 kDa, 27 kDa, 33 kDa, 55 kDa, or 90 kDa forms as therapeutic targets.
US10942172B2	Methods, reagents and kits for flow cytometric immunophenotyping The invention relates to the field of flow cytometry and more particularly to a panel of antibody reagents conjugated to fluorescent compounds. Provided are reagent compositions, comprising at least eight distinct fluorochrome-conjugated antibodies comprising a set of at least there identification antibodies for the identification of a leukocyte population of interest and at least four characterization antibodies for further characterization and/or classification of said leukocyte population. Also provided are kits and methods related to the reagent compositions.
US10942171B2	Methods, reagents and kits for flow cytometric immunophenotyping The invention relates to the field of flow cytometry and more particularly to a panel of antibody reagents conjugated to fluorescent compounds. Provided are reagent compositions, comprising at least eight distinct fluorochrome-conjugated antibodies comprising a set of at least there identification antibodies for the identification of a leukocyte population of interest and at least four characterization antibodies for further characterization and/or classification of said leukocyte population. Also provided are kits and methods related to the reagent compositions.
US10942163B1	System and method for metering, dispensing, filtering, and mixing micro-volumes of fluids Devices for micro-fluid mixing micro-fluids are presented, together with example methods for micro-mixing using example devices. An example device may include a micro-volume fluid chamber (μVFC), a micro-volume mixing chamber (μVMC), and a source of a target micro fluid. The μVFC may include two slidably-mounted piston segments that divide the μVFC into three sub-volumes, one of which initially contains a mixer micro-fluid. The source of the target micro fluid may be triggered to deliver the target micro-fluid into another of the sub-volumes via an inlet channel. A propellant may be triggered to drive axial motion of the piston segments, causing the sub-volumes to compress. Through this action, the mixer micro-fluid may be expelled via a first outlet channel into the μVMC, and the target micro-fluid may be expelled via a second outlet channel into the μVMC. As the piston segments move, they block and unblock the inlet and outlet channels.
US10942161B2	Electrostatic varnish and precursor detection in lubricants Methods are provided for in-situ detection of varnish and/or deposit precursors in a lubricant in a lubricating environment. An electrostatic accumulator can be used within a lubricating environment to enhance accumulation of varnish and/or deposit precursors on portions of the electrostatic accumulator. The deposits accumulated on the electrostatic accumulator can then be characterized in-situ. The potential difference across portions of the electrostatic accumulator can cause an enhanced rate of deposit accumulation on the electrostatic accumulator, which can facilitate characterization of the tendency of a lubricant to accumulate deposits in the lubricating environment.
US10942160B2	Characterization of crude oil and its fractions by fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy analysis A system and a method are provided for calculating the cetane number, pour point, cloud point, aniline point, aromaticity, and/or octane number of a gas oil or naphtha fraction of a crude oil from the density and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) of a sample of the crude oil, without first distilling the crude oil into the gas oil or naphtha fraction.
US10942156B2	Method for identifying an analyte in a fluid The invention relates to a method for the identification of an analyte in a sample fluid. The method comprises the performance of a set of measurements on at least two sensors of different types. Sensors of different types may comprise Gas Chromatography sensors, CMOS gas sensors, a combination thereof, or more generally sensors in which it is possible to control a first physical parameter and measure, for different values of the first parameter, a second physical parameter representative of at least a concentration of the analyte. The method comprises the detection of maxima of the second parameter, the access to databases in order to find reference values of the first parameters in which maxima are found, and the comparison of values at which maxima are found and reference values, on the two sensors.
US10942149B2	Ion sensor, ion sensor manufacturing method, and field asymmetric ion mobility spectrometry system An ion sensor, an ion sensor manufacturing method, and a field asymmetric ion mobility spectrometry (FAIMS) system. The ion sensor includes an ion filter including a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other, an ion sensing electrode with which an ion that has passed through the ion filter collides, and an insulator to electrically insulate the ion sensing electrode from the first electrode and the second electrode. The method includes forming a first slit on an active layer of an at least one SOI substrate, the at least one SOI substrate including a base layer, an insulating layer on the base layer, and the active layer on the insulating layer, dividing the active layer into two, forming a second slit through the base layer, the second slit overlapping with the first slit in a planar view, and forming a third slit through the insulating layer.
US10942143B2	Biosensor electrode and biosensor using the same A biosensor electrode, comprising: a porous metal structure; and a carbon nanotube structure comprising a plurality of carbon nanotubes, the carbon nanotube structure is fixed on a surface of the porous metal structure, wherein the porous metal structure and the carbon nanotube structure are shrunk together to form a plurality of wrinkled parts.
US10942142B2	Methods and apparatus for analyte detection using fluorinated phthalocyanines Methods and apparatus for detecting an analyte using fluorinated phthalocyanines is disclosed herein. A method for detecting an analyte includes illuminating an analyte solution which contacts an electrode comprising a conductive material having a photosensitizer coupled thereto to generate a reactive oxygen species, wherein the photosensitizer is a fluorinated pthalocyanine having a metal or a non-metal center, oxidizing an analyte present in the analyte solution with the reactive oxygen species to form an oxidized analyte, and detecting a current resulting from the reduction of the oxidized analyte at the electrode.
US10942133B2	Method and system for automatically detecting fabric defect, and computer readable storage medium Disclosed are a method and system for automatic detection of a fabric defect. The method comprises: preprocessing a region of a fabric to be detected during a fabric transmission process by a noise removing device to eliminate noise interference during a detection process; triggering a camera to perform image acquisition on the fabric to be detected according to rotation information of a motor of a roller of a cloth inspection machine; and automatically identifying a defect on the fabric to be detected based on an acquisition image.
US10942128B2	Method and system for detecting a diamond signature A method for identifying the presence of partly liberated diamonds in a material stream. The method including illuminating a material with a multi-wavelength beam including at least one monochromatic SWIR laser beam, and at least one IR scatter-/anti-scatter laser beam. A sorting process including ejecting objects including material classified as diamond from a transportation direction of the material stream.
US10942125B2	Biosensor Disclosed herein is an apparatus, which comprises an optical waveguide, a first and second waveguide couplers. The optical waveguide may be configured to receive light from an end surface of the optical waveguide. The first waveguide coupler may be coupled, at a first coupling strength, to a first portion of the optical waveguide. The second waveguide coupler may be coupled, at a second coupling strength, to a second portion of the optical waveguide. Attenuation of the light at the first portion is smaller than attenuation of the light at the second portion. The first coupling strength is smaller than the second coupling strength. The first waveguide coupler and the second waveguide coupler each comprises a surface comprising sites configured to attach a probe.
US10942121B2	Analysis device In order to avoid crosstalk between images by a simple method, an optical system through which lights emitted from a plurality of light emission points pass, and a measurement unit that measures lights imaged by the optical system are provided, and a midpoint of two arbitrary light emission points among the light emission points is shifted away from a center of the optical system. More specifically, the center of the optical system exists outside a light emission point group consisting of the plurality of the light emission points. With the above configuration, main images and ghost images are separated each other, and thus, it is possible to avoid crosstalk caused by ghosting and to correctly analyze emissions from the plurality of the light emission points.
US10942120B2	High throughput method and apparatus for measuring multiple optical properties of a liquid sample An apparatus for the high throughput measurement of optical properties of liquid samples placed into the wells of a multiwell plate is disclosed. An optical fiber within a fiber bundle containing no corrective optics between the fiber ends and the well plate bottom illuminates the sample in order to induce fluorescence, and multiple fibers collect emission radiation and transmit it to a fluorescence detector such as a spectrometer. Other embodiments involve a light scattering illumination source with detection fibers located in either the same bundle containing the fluorescence monitoring fibers or an independent light scattering detection bundle for the measurement of static and/or dynamic light scattering. Some embodiments of the invention permit the measurement of phase analysis light scattering. Thus the measurement of multiple optical properties of a liquid sample may be made simultaneously or in succession. A method for these measurements is also disclosed.
US10942116B2	Method and apparatus for enhanced photo-thermal imaging and spectroscopy System for performing chemical spectroscopy on samples from the scale of nanometers to millimeters or more with a multifunctional platform combining analytical and imaging techniques including dual beam photo-thermal spectroscopy with confocal microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, fluorescence detection, various vacuum analytical techniques and/or mass spectrometry. In embodiments described herein, the light beams of a dual-beam system are used for heating and sensing.
US10942113B2	Methods, systems, and components thereof relating to using multi-spectral imaging for improved cultivation of cannabis and other crops A method for assessing at least one condition of a plant material is provided. The method may include providing a spectral image, normalizing the spectral image to generate a normalized spectral image, processing the normalized spectral image to generate at least one processed spectral image, providing a palette file, and generating a displayable false color image from the at least one processed spectral image and the palette file. The method may include capturing a multi-spectral image of the plant material with a multi-spectral imager. The plant material may be a portion of a cannabis plant and the condition may be one of, or relating to, health. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a computer program for performing the method is also provided.
US10942102B2	Sensing device using fiber based cantilevers embedded in a cartridge A sensing device for measuring physical properties of fluid medium uses fiber based cantilevers embedded in a cartridge. The cartridge may include: at least one fluidic channel, at least one light channel, at least one chamber located at the intersection of the fluidic channel and the light channel, and at least one light guide placed in the light channel. The light guide is at least partially contained in the respective chamber. The light guide has a movable section. The vibration of the movable section may be externally actuatable.
US10942098B2	Method and system for analyzing at least a rock sample extracted from a geological formation The disclosure relates to a method of analyzing at least a rock sample extracted from a geological formation. The method comprises: heating the at least one rock sample under inert atmosphere with a temperature below 300° C. and with a flow of inert gas to remove contaminants, analyzing at least one of the decontaminated rock samples and determining at least a property relative to non-volatile organic matter contained in the geological formation based on the analysis.
US10942097B2	Liquid to liquid biological particle concentrator with disposable fluid path Highly efficient and rapid filtration-based concentration devices, systems and methods are disclosed with sample fluidic lines and a filter packaged in a disposable tip which concentrate biological particles that are suspended in liquid from a dilute feed suspension. A sample concentrate or retentate suspension is retained while eliminating the separated fluid in a separate flow stream. The concentrate is then dispensed from the disposable tip in a set volume of elution fluid. Suspended biological particles include such materials as proteins/toxins, viruses, DNA, and/or bacteria in the size range of approximately 0.001 micron to 20 microns diameter. Concentration of these particles is advantageous for detection of target particles in a dilute suspension, because concentrating them into a small volume makes them easier to detect. All conduits by which the disposable tip attaches to the instrument are combined into a single connection point on the upper end of the tip.
US10942096B2	Automated system for remote inline concentration of ultra-low concentrations in pure chemicals Systems and methods are described to concentrate a remote sample for analysis. A sample concentration system embodiment includes, but is not limited to, a plurality of valves including at least a first valve, a second valve, and a third valve; a plurality of columns including at least a first column and a second column, the first column fluidically coupled to the first valve, the second column fluidically coupled to the second valve; and a flow meter coupled with the third valve, the flow meter fluidically coupled with each of the first column and the second column when the plurality of valves is in a first flow path configuration to measure an amount of the liquid sample passed through the first column and the second column, wherein the plurality of valves includes a second flow path configuration and a third flow path configuration.
US10942095B2	Microfluidic devices for investigating crystallization Microfluidic devices and methods for investigating crystallization and/or for controlling a reaction or a phase transition are disclosed. In one embodiment, the microfluidic device includes a reservoir layer; a membrane disposed on the reservoir layer; a wetting control layer disposed on the membrane; and a storage layer disposed on the wetting control layer, wherein the wetting control layer and the storage layer define a microfluidic channel comprising an upstream portion, a downstream portion, a first fluid path in communication with the upstream and the downstream portions, and a storage well positioned within the first fluid path, wherein the wetting control layer includes a fluid passageway in communication with the storage well and the membrane, and wherein the wetting control layer wets a first fluid introduced into the microfluidic channel, the first fluid comprising a hydrophilic, lipophilic, fluorophilic or gas phase as the continuous phase in the microfluidic channel.
US10942092B2	Device for collecting, transferring and storing samples of biological and/or chemical material The concepts herein relate to a device for collecting, transferring and storing samples of biological and/or chemical material. The device includes a support body extending along a main longitudinal direction between a first and a second end opposite each other and a collecting portion engaged with one of said ends of the support body and suitable for collecting an amount of a sample of biological and/or chemical material. The support body is defined by at least a first sub-body and a second sub-body extending longitudinally and configured to be selectively engaged and separated with and from each other. The support body is configured to operate between an assembled condition, wherein the first and the second sub-body are engaged with each other, and a separated condition, wherein the first and the second sub-body are separated and bear, respectively, a first and a second sub-collecting portion of the collecting portion.
US10942091B2	Control device of dynamometer system A control device of a dynamometer system is provided with: a driving force observer which estimates a generated driving force of a vehicle; an electrical inertia control unit which uses the driving force to generate a front wheel basic torque command signal and a rear wheel basic torque command signal; a synchronization control unit which generates a synchronization control torque command signal with respect to the basic torque command signal and the basic torque command signal in such a way as to eliminate a speed difference; and torque command signal generating units which use the synchronization control torque command signal to adjust the basic torque command signal and the basic torque command signal. The synchronization control unit is defined in such a way that the poles of a denominator polynomial of a transfer function from the driving force to the speed difference are all negative real numbers.
US10942070B2	Sensor unit, temperature sensor including the same, method of manufacturing the sensor unit, and method of manufacturing the temperature sensor Provided is a temperature sensor including a carrier substrate; a sensor unit positioned on the carrier substrate and including a base layer and an electric conductive layer, the base layer having surface hygroscopicity, and the electric conductive layer being on an external surface of the base layer; a pad unit electrically connected to opposite ends of the sensor unit; and a cover unit positioned on the sensor unit and configured to cover the sensor unit.
US10942064B2	Diagnostic system with broadband light source A diagnostic system is provided with a plurality of semiconductor light emitters, each configured to generate an optical beam, and a beam combiner to generate a multiplexed optical beam. An optical fiber or waveguide communicates at least a portion of the multiplexed optical beam to form an output beam, wherein the output beam is pulsed. A filter, coupled to at least one of a lens and a mirror to receive at least a portion of the output beam, forms an output light. A beam splitter splits the light into a sample arm and a reference arm and directs at least a portion of the sample arm light to a sample. A detection system is configured to receive from the sample at least a portion of reflected sample light, to generate a sample detector output, and to use a lock-in technique with the pulsed output beam.
US10942056B2	Tank continuous level sensing based on average flush volume A system and method for continuous level sensing is disclosed. The system employs a continuous level sensing strain gauge measuring a weight of an aircraft waste tank, a lower and upper point level sensors to signal the system as the liquid level reaches each sensor, and a flush counter to correlate with the CLS and the PLS to determine an average flush volume (AFV). Once the AFV is known and updated, the system determines a weighted waste tank level based on a weighted addition of the flush count and the quantity as measured by the CLS. As the aircraft tank reaches a predetermined value, the system alerts a crewmember to the status.
US10942053B2	Seeding system A seeding system includes a commodity tank configured to store a commodity. The commodity tank has a first outlet and a second outlet. A volumetric meter has a meter inlet at the first outlet of the commodity tank, a meter outlet, and a metering device between the meter inlet and the meter outlet. A manifold has a commodity inlet at the outlet of the volumetric meter, an air inlet, and a manifold outlet. A first dispersion device has a plurality of outlets and an inlet in communication with the manifold outlet. A second dispersion device has a plurality of outlets and an inlet in communication with the second outlet of the commodity tank. The second outlet of the commodity tank bypasses the volumetric meter.
US10942051B2	Compound water meter The invention relates to a compound water meter, consisting of a main meter, connectable to a main line, for detecting larger flow rates, and an auxiliary meter, arranged in an annular channel, for detecting smaller flow rates, wherein the measuring insert of the main meter is assigned a switching valve connected with it and opening the passage through the main line upon achieving a certain differential pressure against the action of a spring element. In order to create an improved compound water meter, it is suggested within the scope of the invention that the spring element is arranged in the interior of the switching valve and a single seal of the switching valve is axially arranged on the non-moveable part. Through the arrangement of the spring element in the interior of the switching valve, the switching valve is only sealed via a seal. Through the axial arrangement of the seal, in contrast to the prior art, in which the one radial seal is provided, it is achieved that the sealing point is particularly low-wear. In contrast to the prior art, only one seal is provided in the compound water meter according to the invention, which entails a simplification of the manufacturing process, as well as also an increase of the operational safety.
US10942048B2	Sensor chip used for multi-physical quantity measurement and preparation method thereof A sensor chip is used for multi-physical quantity measurement. This sensor chip comprises a substrate and at least two of the following sensors: a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, or a pressure sensor, which are integrated onto the same substrate, wherein the pressure sensor consists of electrically interconnected resistive elements. The humidity sensor is an interdigitated structure. Thermistor elements are placed around the pressure sensor and the humidity sensor to form a temperature sensor. The temperature sensor has a resistance adjusting circuit. A microcavity is etched on the back of the substrate in a place on the opposite side pressure sensor's location. Also disclosed is a preparation method for a sensor chip used for multi-physical quantity measurement. This multi-physical quantity measurement single chip sensor chip has the advantages of low cost, low power consumption, easy fabrication, and wide applicability.
US10942044B2	Monitoring system and method The invention resides in a sensor unit (100) for measuring and monitoring a plurality of parameters associated with an asset or equipment (126, 128) having a fixing connected thereto. The asset can typically be an object, such as a rail or motor casing, that is fixed, using a fixing (122) such as a bolt. The sensor unit has a housing (112) having a portion (120) for receiving a fixing therethrough; sensors (114) arranged to measure and/or monitor (i) parameters associated with a fixing that is secured to the asset via housing and/or (ii) parameters influencing the performance of the asset; a processor (142) configured to process data from the sensors; and a communicator (116) adapted to transmit said data to a remote device. At least one of the sensors can be an inductive sensor, which can measures the displacement or force applied to a fixing against the asset to which it is fixed, said fixing is biased against a resilient member located in the housing. The sensor unit can operate in at least one of a plurality of modes including: a first mode, in which the sensor unit samples one or more parameters periodically at a first sample rate, a second mode, in which the sensor unit detects the occurrence of an event, and a third mode, in which the sensor unit monitors one or more parameters periodically at a second sample rate, which second sample rate is greater than the first sample rate, and wherein the data obtained in said modes is communicable with the system and/or the reader.
US10942042B2	Sensor system comprising offaxis insensitive multipole magnet A sensor system comprises a magnetic field generator and a sensor device arranged at a distance from said magnetic field generator and adapted for measuring or determining at least one magnetic field component and/or at least one magnetic field gradient component. The magnetic field generator comprises a multi-pole magnet having a number N of pole pairs that are axially magnetized to generate an N-pole magnetic field that is substantially rotationally symmetric around an axis. The magnet comprises a plurality of grooves and/or elongate protrusions that are arranged in a rotationally symmetric pattern around the axis to provide a substantially constant magnetic field gradient in a central region around said axis.
US10942039B2	Methods and systems for managing communication sessions A voice enabled device can assist a computing device, such as a server, in processing/analyzing a voice input. The voice enabled device can initiate a network communication session and transmit the voice input to the computing device. The computing device can classify the voice input as a type of communication session (e.g., conversation, etc . . . ). Based on the type of communication session, the computing device can either remain in communication with the voice enabled device and continue to process voice input or terminate the communication after instructing the voice enabled device to process the voice input.
US10942034B2	Shared control of vehicle functions Control of functions associated with a vehicle can be shared between a vehicle operator and a communication device and associated user. The communication device can comprise a control component used to facilitate controlling or sharing control of certain functions associated with the vehicle. The functions can relate to vehicle operation, navigation system, climate control system, media system, or other functions. The communication device can be in the vehicle or can be remotely located from the vehicle. The control component can communicate with a vehicle control system of the vehicle to gain access rights to certain control functions to facilitate controlling certain functions of the vehicle. In instances where vehicle control is shared with more than one communication device, the vehicle control system or vehicle operator, which can be a device or a person, can resolve any conflicts between control requests or commands received from the communication devices.
US10942031B2	Information processing device, measurement device and control method A server device 4 stores on a storage unit 42 an advanced map database 43 which includes feature information associated with a feature. The server device 4 receives, from vehicle mounted devices 1 equipped with external sensors 31 which measure features, difference information Idf indicative of a difference between feature information and the actual feature corresponding to the feature information. In accordance with the degree of reliability Rdf which is calculated based on a plurality of the difference information Idf, the server device 4 sends to the vehicle mounted device 1 a raw data request signal SR for requesting the transmission of raw data which is measurement data of the actual feature.
US10942029B2	Tracking a target using multiple tracking systems A tracking system for tracking a moving target includes a processor and a tracking module that implements an iterative process for tracking the moving target. The iterative process includes receiving sensor data for a current state of the moving target. The process also includes applying a filter engine to the sensor data and a measure of error of a previous prediction of the current state of the target to produce a first estimate for an upcoming state and a first measure of error thereof. The process also includes receiving from at least one second tracking system, at least one second estimate for the upcoming state and second measure of error thereof. The process further includes defining a consensus estimate for the upcoming state and a consensus measure of error thereof using the first estimate and the at least one second estimate and the first and second measure of error thereof.
US10942026B2	System and method for managing and analyzing multimedia information A UAV data processing and management system is provided including an encoder broadcaster and data manager which provides end users with a single interface for searching and sharing any video or imagery source, from any device with no client software required. Data inputs to the resource can include UAV video, photos, traffic cameras, fixed surveillance systems, iOS and Android device pictures, and other data (e.g., texts, emails) and inputs from all forms of social media, such as Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, etc. The cloud based manager is built with collaboration and sharing in mind while at the same time maintaining data privacy, security protection, chain-of-custody control and audit trail maintenance. Analytic tools are integrated accordingly as “plug-ins” or as a store of available app resources which are easily removed, added and customized based on user needs and system requirements and cost constraints.
US10942024B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and recording medium There is provided an information processing apparatus to measure a distance in a real space with a simpler operation, the information processing apparatus including: an acquisition section that acquires an image captured by a predetermined imaging section, and position information based on at least any of a position and a direction of the imaging section; an estimation section that estimates a first position and a second position in a real space, on a basis of a first image and a second image which are the image captured at each of a first viewpoint and a second viewpoint, and first position information and second position information which are the position information about each of the first viewpoint and the second viewpoint; and a measurement section that measures a distance between the first position and the second position on a basis of the estimation result.
US10942010B1	Architected armor According to an embodiment of the present invention, a three-dimensional architected armor structure includes a core structure and a matrix. The core structure includes: a plurality of impact members; a plurality of joint members below the impact members; and a plurality of connection members respectively extending between one of the impact members and one of the joint members. The matrix fills at least a portion of a space between the impact members, the joint members, and the connection members.
US10942001B1	Stow pin actuator A stow pin is provided for locking and releasing a turret on a baseplate. The stow pin can be inserted into the turret for controllably engaging the baseplate. The stow pin includes a housing, a shaft, a tip, first and second inlets, first and second channels, and a piston. The housing encloses an axial bore with a piston cavity extending radially from the bore. The piston cavity has proximal and distal axial limits. The shaft is disposed in the bore to translate therealong, and has proximal and distal ends. The tip is disposed on the proximal end of the shaft for insertion into the baseplate. The first and second inlets receive fluid under pressure. The first channel transfers the fluid from the first inlet to the piston cavity at the proximal limit. The second channel transfers the fluid from the second inlet to the piston cavity at the distal limit. The piston is disposed on the shaft to translate axially within the piston cavity between the proximal and distal ends as respective engage and release positions. The fluid received in the first inlet and transferred to the first channel pushes the piston to the release position, while the fluid received in the second inlet and transferred to the second channel pushes the piston to the engage position. The tip engages the baseplate responsive to the piston being at the engage position, but released from the baseplate responsive to the piston being at the release position. Additionally, the stow pin can include a disk cavity, a disk, and proximal and distal sensors. The disk cavity is contained within the housing and extending radially from the axial bore. The disk connects to the shaft to translate axially within the disk cavity. The proximal and distal sensors connect to the disk corresponding to first and second disposal of said piston.
US10941997B2	Corner shot firearm A corner shot firearm comprises one or more clamp, a trigger actuator, a front grip, an accessory trigger, a pivot stud and an aim control wheel. The clamp includes a first mounting point disposed at a front end of the clamp, wherein the first mounting point is configured to mount a secondary firearm. Additionally, the trigger actuator is connected to the first mounting point. The front grip is attached to a rear end of the clamp. The accessory trigger is connected to the front grip such that the accessory trigger is actuatable by a finger of the human hand holding the front grip. Additionally, the pivot stud is connected to the first mounting point. Further, the aim control wheel is connected to the first mounting point.
US10941995B2	AR based autoloading shotgun with a detachable magazine Disclosed is an autoloading shotgun firearm which shares interchangeable fully compatible modular sub-assemblies, ergonomics, parts commonality, and exterior appearance with the AR rifle platform. Rapidly reversible tool less conversion from rifle to shotgun and vice versa is accomplished by substitution of the AR rifle upper receiver and ammunition detachable magazine with fully compatible shotgun upper receiver and ammunition detachable magazine. Said shotgun utilizes standard rimmed shotgun ammunition via features in the detachable magazine which securely maintain the position and facilitate the feeding of the cartridges during normal operation. No alteration of the AR rifle lower receiver is required. A short-recoil action is integrated into the shotgun upper receiver. The external appearance and functionality of the AR rifle are retained while eliminating the complexity and inherent fouling issues of typical gas systems used in the AR rifle. A short-recoil action also enables the shotgun to function reliably with shorter length barrels.
US10941982B2	Refrigerator A refrigerator includes a cabinet, a door defining an opening in the door, and a transparent display assembly that covers the opening and allows an inner space of the refrigerator to be visible. The transparent display assembly includes a front panel, a rear panel, an outer spacer configured to maintain a first distance between the front panel and the rear panel, a display disposed on a rear surface of the front panel, a light guide plate spaced apart from the display, and a first spacer configured to support the light guide plate and to maintain a second distance between the display and the light guide plate. The outer spacer defines a first injection hole configured to allow introduction of an inert gas to the outer spacer, and a first insulation layer configured to receive the inert gas between the front panel and the light guide plate.
US10941972B2	Portable cooler with active temperature control A portable cooler container with active temperature control system is provided. The active temperature control system is operated to heat or cool a chamber of a vessel to approach a temperature set point suitable for a medication stored in the cooler container.
US10941970B2	Portable cooler apparatus A portable cooler apparatus that is used to cool liquids and perishable food items simultaneously while not contaminating the liquid is disclosed. The portable cooler apparatus includes a container, a lid, a telescoping member, and a tray. These items are coupled in such a way that the desired result of refrigeration and non-contaminated drinking liquid is simultaneously provided.
US10941964B2	Method for operating a vapour compression system with a receiver A method for controlling a vapour compression system, the vapour compression system including a compressor unit with one or more compressors. At least one of the compressors is connectable to a gaseous outlet of a receiver, and at least one of the compressors is connectable to an outlet of an evaporator. A parameter of the vapour compression system is measured, an enthalpy of refrigerant leaving the heat rejecting heat exchanger being derivable from the measured parameter. A setpoint value for a pressure inside the receiver is calculated, based on the measured parameter, and the compressor unit is operated in accordance with the calculated setpoint value, and in order to obtain a pressure inside the receiver which is equal to the calculated setpoint value. The vapour compression system is operated in an energy efficient manner over a wide range of ambient temperatures.
US10941960B2	HVAC actuator with position indicator An HVAC actuator configured to actuate an HVAC component may include a rotatable output shaft having a range of rotation between a first end position and a second end position, a drive mechanism configured to selectively drive the output shaft, and a housing for housing the drive mechanism. The HVAC actuator may include a position indicator viewable from a front side of the housing that moves as the output shaft is rotated such that the position indicator indicates a current position of the output shaft. The position indicator may include an indicator wheel that is directly coupled to the output shaft of the HVAC actuator and may rotate with the output shaft. The indicator wheel may have one or more markings that move with the indicator wheel. The one or more markings may include a line extending in a radial direction from a rotation axis of the indicator wheel.
US10941959B2	Air temperature control using potable water Various embodiments include a system for controlling air temperature. The system can include a potable water piping system, a cooling system, and a heating system. The potable water piping system can include potable water supply piping and potable water return piping. The cooling system can be coupled to the potable water piping system. The cooling system can include a water-refrigerant heat exchanger; an air-refrigerant coil; a compressor coupled between the water-refrigerant heat exchanger and the air-refrigerant coil; and an expansion valve coupled between the water-refrigerant heat exchanger and the air-refrigerant coil. The heating system can be coupled to the potable water piping system. The heating system can include a hot water coil. The water-refrigerant heat exchanger can be coupled to the potable water supply piping and the potable water return piping. The hot water coil can be coupled to the potable water supply piping and the potable water return piping.
US10941949B2	Evaporative HVAC apparatus An evaporative HVAC apparatus is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the apparatus provides an at least one housing having an inner surface that defines a substantially tubular-shaped air passage extending therethrough. An absorbent wicking layer is formed immediately adjacent to at least a portion of the inner surface of the housing, and a thermal layer is formed immediately adjacent to an inner surface of the wicking layer. The housing also provides an at least one fluid inlet aperture through which a fluid line extends a distance into the housing so as to be in fluid communication with the wicking layer. Thus, a fluid is selectively delivered to the wicking layer through the fluid line which, in turn, permeates the thermal layer and evaporates into the air located immediately adjacent an exposed inner surface of the thermal layer, thereby affecting the temperature of the air moving through the air passage.
US10941947B2	Drainage tray for a heat pump A drainage tray may be provided for collecting condensate from a heat pump that is adapted to be mounted on a support. The support may be mountable to at least one supporting structure to carry the weight of the heat pump and the support. The drainage tray may include a peripheral edge portion defining a central recessed portion configured to collect condensate. A condensate outlet may be provided for removing the condensate from the tray. The drainage tray may be configured to be arranged between an underside of the heat pump and the support. The drainage tray may have a trapezoidal shape.
US10941944B2	Consumable support structures for additively manufactured combustor components An additively manufactured combustor shell may comprise a radially outward surface, a radially inward surface opposite the radially outward surface, and an injector port defining a fuel injection channel. The injector port may comprise an inlet structure extending from the radially outward surface, and an outlet structure may extending from the radially inward surface. A support structure may extend between the outlet structure and the radially inward surface. The support structure may be configured to vaporize upon ignition of a fuel within the combustion chamber.
US10941937B2	Combustor liner with gasket for gas turbine engine A gasket for installation within a cavity between a support shell and a liner panel of a combustor wall assembly, the support shell having a multiple of impingement holes, and the liner panel having a multiple of film holes, the gasket including a multiple of cells arranged with respect to the multiple of impingement holes and the multiple of film holes, wherein at least one of the multiple of cells segregate a respective subset of the multiple of impingement holes and a subset of the multiple of film holes.
US10941931B2	Lighting device, 3D-printed cooling element, and a method of producing a lighting device A lighting device having a 3D-printed heat sink. The 3D-printed heat sink includes a stack of a core layer and at least one further layer stacked along a stack axis normal to the core layer. The core layer and the at least one further layer having a same polymer material each with a thermally conductive filler, wherein a concentration of the thermally conductive filler in the polymer material decreases, starting from the core layer, consecutively with each of the at least one further layer for improving resistance to mechanical failure and thermal conduction of said 3D-printed heat sink.
US10941913B1	Electronic candle An electronic candle produces light using light emitting diodes (LEDs) or other electronic sources of light, rather than a flame, and is intended to operate the LEDs in a fashion that simulates a burning candle. The electronic candle includes a base and LEDs within a bulb and surrounded by a dome to provide a diffusing effect for light generated within the electronic candle. A memory accessible by a processor contains stored programming instructions causing the LEDs to illuminate under control of the processor, in accordance with particular modes of operation, varying from one mode to another after brief periods of time and in a random way. Each mode defines an apparent flame position having a radial position, angular position, and intensity of the simulated flame.
US10941912B2	Flames/smoke simulation The present invention relates to a method of simulating flames/smoke using a flames/smoke simulating device or system.
US10941899B2	Mounting track for retaining a mount assembly A mounting track includes a track section having a track base, two vertical track-rails, and horizontal track-beams laterally-spaced-apart from each other by a first distance. An endpiece is attachable to the track section and includes an endpiece base, a vertical endpiece rail, and horizontal endpiece beams. When attached to the track section, the track base and the endpiece base align, the vertical track-rails and the vertical endpiece rail align, and the horizontal track-beams and the horizontal endpiece beams align to form a continuous track within which a retention element of a mount assembly can move. The endpiece includes an insertion zone where opposing portions of the horizontal endpiece beams are spaced-apart from each other by a second distance that is larger than the first distance to facilitate insertion of the retention element into the track.
US10941891B2	Coupling element for connecting a fluid line A coupling element for connecting a fluid line includes a locking pin movable in translation between a first position in which it emerges from a support surface and a second position in which it is retracted relative to the support surface. The coupling element further includes a return member for returning the pin to its first position, and an unlocking ring rotatable about a longitudinal axis and surrounding the tubular body of the coupling element. The unlocking ring is mechanically coupled to the pin by means of a ball and a helical groove for guiding the ball in order to transform the rotation of the unlocking ring into a translational movement of the pin from its first position towards its second position.
US10941870B1	Fluid throttling valve A throttling valve that allows staged pressure drop increments upstream and/or downstream of a primary flow trim assembly within a valve body to help prevent cavitation and freezing effects. The flow trim assembly can be quickly and efficiently removed from the throttling valve (and repaired or replaced) without requiring disassembly of the throttling valve from a flow line or other fluid conduit, and without requiring removal of an automated actuator. A throttling valve body that allows direct mounting of actuators to the valve without the need for brackets and linkages.
US10941869B2	Dual lock flow gate A dual lock flow gate includes a valve with a flapper which may be fixed and/or locked in various positions for example to prevent fluid flow in the production string during lowering of the production string in the casing by blocking flow in the production string with the dual lock flow gate or for example to prevent rotation of the pump motor by preventing fluid flow in the production string.
US10941867B2	High conductance valve for fluids and vapors A high conductance valve for use in fluid delivery systems is comprised of a flat non-circular orifice ridge adjacent to which a control plate having a planar control surface is proximally positioned to adjust the valve effective opening area and thereby the conductance of the valve. The length of the non-circular orifice ridge periphery is substantially greater than the circumference of a similarly sized circular orifice and therefore the realized effective opening area is also substantially greater despite having a similar footprint.
US10941865B2	Steam valve, valve and steam turbine facility A valve includes a valve stem, a first valve body disposed on a distal end side of the valve stem and configured to be driven via the valve stem, a first valve seat on which the first valve body is seatable, an auxiliary seat surface extending along a direction transverse to an axial direction of the valve stem, an auxiliary seat portion disposed on a proximal end side of the valve stem with respect to the first valve body and configured to abut on the auxiliary seat surface when the first valve body is closed, and a biasing member capable of generating a biasing force along the axial direction of the valve stem.
US10941863B2	Sliding component A sliding component includes a pair of sliding parts of which a rotating-side sliding part rotates in both forward and reverse directions. In the sliding component, at least one of the sliding parts has a sliding face provided with positive pressure generation grooves on the sealed fluid side, and a negative pressure generation groove on the opposite-to-sealed-fluid side and separated from the opposite-to-sealed-fluid side by a land, and a deep groove communicating with the sealed fluid side on the sealed fluid side of the negative pressure generation groove. The positive pressure generation grooves each have an upstream end communicating with the deep groove, and the negative pressure generation groove has an upstream inlet and a downstream outlet that communicate with the deep groove, and an intermediate portion between the inlet and the outlet located on the opposite-to-sealed-fluid side of the inlet and the outlet.
US10941853B2	Shift device When a knob of a shift lever device is being assembled, a pair of design frames are assembled to a knob main body, and then a cover is assembled to the knob main body. When the cover is being assembled to the knob main body, ribs of the pair of design frames are inserted into an insertion hole in the cover. The pair of ribs are put into surface contact with one another in a left-and-right direction, and distal end portions of the pair of design frames are put into surface contact in the left-and-right direction. Consequently, the formation of a gap between the distal end portions of the pair of design frames may be inhibited.
US10941852B2	Stowable shift lever assembly A shift lever assembly includes a structural support, a shift lever, an autopark device, a folding device, and an interlock device. The shift lever includes a base structure and an arm. The base structure is pivotally engaged to the structural support about a first axis for movement between a park and gear positions. The arm is pivotally engaged to the base structure about a second axis for movement between deployed and stowed states. The autopark device is carried between the structural support and the base structure to effect movement between the park and gear positions. The folding device is carried between the arm and the base structure to effect movement between the deployed and stowed states. The interlock device is supported by the base structure, is adapted to operable interface between the autopark device and the arm, and is configured to move between locked and released positions.
US10941842B2	Resettable electro-mechanical cam actuated shaft disconnect for generators A disconnect assembly for an input shaft and an output shaft includes a sleeve configured to be disposed about the input shaft and the output shaft. A cam is disposed about the sleeve. A cam follower is configured to contact the cam. An interfacing element is configured to operatively interface the sleeve, the input shaft, and the output shaft. The sleeve, the cam, the cam follower, and the interfacing element are configured to move between a respective connect position and a respective disconnect position.
US10941841B2	Traction transmission and drive unit for a motor vehicle Traction transmission having a first and a second component transmission (26a, b) which are of mirror-symmetrical construction with respect to one another and are arranged axially adjacently in a housing (12), in each case comprising—an axially inner drive friction disc (28a, b) and an axially outer complementary friction disc (32a, b) which are arranged coaxially and can be rotated relative to one another about a transmission central axis, and—a set of friction rollers (40) which make non-positive contact between the friction discs (28a, b, 32a, b) and are mounted such that they can be rotated about in each case one roller axle (44), wherein the roller axles (44) are pivotably mounted in a manner which is spaced apart radially from the transmission central axis on a star-shaped spider (38a, b) which can be moved ax Lilly in relation to the transmission central axis, wherein the spiders (38a, b) are arranged on a common spider sleeve (50) and are coupled to one another at a variable spacing via an axially extending thread pairing (52), wherein—the complementary friction discs (32a, b) are arranged fixedly on a common output shaft (34) which is mounted in the housing such that it is fixed axially and can be rotated, —the spacing of the drive friction discs (28a, b) from one another can be varied by means of a spacing setting device (60), and—the spider sleeve (50) is mounted such that it can be displaced axially relative to the housing (12), wherein the first spider (38a) which is assigned to the first component transmission (26a) is connected fixedly to the housing (12) so as to rotate with it, the second spider (38b) which is assigned to the second component transmission (26b) can be rotated relative to the housing (12) by means of an angular position setting device (54b, 58), and the thread pairing (52) which couples the spiders (38a, b) is set up in such a way that a relative rotation of the spiders (38a, b) brings about a change in the spacing thereof.
US10941840B2	Continuously variable transmission with wedge actuation mechanism A powertrain has a continuously variable transmission including a shaft rotatable about an axis. The CVT further comprises a variator assembly that includes a pulley supported on the shaft. The pulley has a movable sheave with a ramp surface. The movable sheave is axially movable on the shaft. The variator assembly also includes an endless rotatable device frictionally engaged with the movable sheave. An actuator mechanism includes a wedge component supported on the shaft. The wedge component has a wedge surface that automatically engages the ramp surface when torque on the shaft is in a first direction. The wedge surface applies a wedge force on the ramp surface. The actuator mechanism further includes an actuator that is operatively connected to the movable sheave and is activatable to apply a force on the movable sheave.
US10941837B2	Reclining apparatus A reclining apparatus (51) includes: an internal gear (61) that has internal teeth (61c) which are formed on an inner peripheral surface thereof; an external gear (63) that has external teeth (63a) which have a smaller number of teeth than that of the internal teeth (61c) and are formed on an outer peripheral surface thereof; a first wedge (71) and a second wedge (73) that are provided so as to be movable along a peripheral direction in an eccentric annular space between the internal gear (61) and the external gear (63); and a striker (79) that has a pressing portion having a pair of first protrusion portions and second protrusion portions capable of pressing the first wedge (71) and the second wedge (73). The striker (79) has a plurality of the pressing portions (81, 83).
US10941835B2	Attachment device, retainer and associated method of use A device for attachment with a structure such as a rope, bar, cord, pole or the like includes a loop arrangement having a first attachment portion and a second loop portion and a retainer located between the first attachment portion and the second loop portion. The loop arrangement is adapted to be movable between a non-furled condition, in which respective first and second ends of the first attachment portion and the second loop portion are located away from one another, and a furled condition, in which the second loop portion is wrapped around the rope to form a wrapped section with the first attachment portion fitted through the second loop portion and extending laterally of the rope and with the second end of the second loop portion being retained by the retainer thereby maintaining the furled condition. A retainer and an associated method of use is also disclosed.
US10941828B2	Gas spring with travel control In one embodiment, a gas spring having a travel control includes positive and negative chambers and a valve mechanism that controls the fluid communication between the chambers. The valve mechanism includes a valve bore that while only moving a small amount, allows for large changes in gas spring travel length.
US10941823B2	Segmented wear liner A friction disk may comprise a friction disk core and a wear liner coupled to the friction disk core. A depression may be formed in a surface of the friction disk core. The wear liner may comprise a protrusion extending from a non-wear surface of the wear liner. The protrusion may be positioned within the depression of the friction disk core.
US10941818B2	Clutch and compressor comprising same Disclosed herein are a clutch and a compressor including the same. The clutch includes a hub fastened to a rotary shaft of the compressor to be rotatable together with the rotary shaft in a state in which a position of the hub is fixed, a disk fastened to the hub to be rotatable together therewith, a pulley rotated by power transmitted from a drive source of the compressor, an elastic member for fastening the hub and the disk such that the disk is movable toward or away from the pulley with respect to the hub, a field coil assembly magnetized when electric power is applied thereto to allow the disk and the pulley to come into contact with or separate from each other, and an attenuation member interposed between the elastic member and the disk. Accordingly, it is possible to reduce noise and vibration due to contact and separation between the disk and the pulley by the elastic member and the attenuation member.
US10941815B2	Connection device for a drive train A connection device for a joint shaft in a motor vehicle includes an axis of rotation, a first connection area for connecting the connection device to a drive train element, a predetermined breaking region, and a tube region which connects directly to the predetermined breaking region. The connection device has an axial extension in the direction of the axis of rotation, and a radial extension orthogonal to the axis of rotation and is designed, at least substantially, as a tubular hollow body. The predetermined breaking region is arranged between the first connection region and the tube region in the axial direction. A connection area is arranged in the axial direction between the first connection region and the predetermined breaking region.
US10941811B1	High-speed bearing A roller bearing includes a first race, a second race, and a cage disposed between the first and second races. The cage has an inner rim and a plurality of webs extending radially outboard from the inner rim and being circumferentially arranged around the inner rim to be spaced apart to define pockets. The webs have flanges that extend axially. Portions of the inner rim form inner guide surfaces of the pockets. The cage further includes a wavy outer rim circumscribing the inner rim. The outer rim has radially outer portions attached to the flanges and radially inner portions forming outer guide surfaces of the pockets. The outer rim and the flanges cooperate to define cutouts interleaved with the webs. Cylindrical roller elements are disposed in the pockets between the first and second races and have first ends adjacent the inner guide surfaces and second ends adjacent the outer guide surfaces.
US10941798B2	Snap connector A snap connector for rapid mounting of fittings in a rectangular hole in a thin wall. The snap connector includes a head part to be arranged on an outer side of the thin wall. A body part penetrates the hole when mounted. Separate retaining elements protrude from said body part, and the free end of the retaining elements is provided with a first oblique face for trap-like holding and a second oblique face for play-free supporting of the body part on or against the rim or edge of the hole in the other, inner side of the thin wall. The retaining element is a slide that is guided by walls of a channel of substantially rectangular cross-section which is formed by the body part and has opposite walls. The walls have reinforcing ribs, transverse to the channel axis, on the outer wall face facing away from the channel.
US10941797B2	Telescoping mechanism In an aspect, provided is an adjustable telescoping assembly. The adjustable telescoping assembly comprises a first support member and a second support member that is slidable upon the first support member and which defines an interior volume. At least one damping element is provided that extends from outside the second support member, through the second support member into the interior volume and engages the first support member.
US10941793B2	Hydraulic system for working machine A hydraulic system includes an output fluid tube connected to a hydraulic pump to output operation fluid, and an unload valve to be switched to output operation fluid or to stop outputting operation fluid, the unload valve being connected to the output fluid tube. The hydraulic system includes a hydraulic actuator to be actuated by operation fluid, a control valve to control operation fluid to be supplied to the hydraulic actuator with use of a pilot fluid that is operation fluid applied to a pressure-receiving portion of the control valve, a pilot fluid tube connected to the pressure-receiving portion of the control valve, an operation valve to change a pressure of the pilot fluid to be applied to the pilot fluid tube, and a warm-up fluid tube connected between the unload valve and the pilot fluid tube.
US10941789B2	Hydropneumatic piston accumulator A hydropneumatic piston accumulator has an accumulator housing (1) defining a housing longitudinal axis (11) and a piston (9) longitudinally movable between two housing covers (5, 7) positioned opposite each other. In the housing (1), the piston (9) separates a working chamber (13) for a compressible medium, such as a working gas, from a working chamber (15) for an incompressible medium, such as hydraulic fluid. A piston part (55) of a displacement measurement device continuously determines each position of the piston (9) in the housing (1). A rod-shaped guide (29, 57) is stationarily positioned in the accumulator housing (1) and passes all the way through the piston (9) in each of its displacement positions in the accumulator housing (1). The piston (9) is movably guided along the guide until it reaches the stop on one of the two housing covers (5, 7) and is sealed against this guide (29,57) using a sealing device (49, 50).
US10941786B2	Handheld work apparatus A handheld work apparatus has a blower wheel. The blower wheel is held via a nut on the shaft in a manner locked against rotation by frictional force. A thread moment of friction is transmittable between the nut and the shaft via a thread section. A first moment of friction is transmittable between the nut and the blower wheel via a first friction contact surface. The first friction contact surface is configured such that, at a minimum tightening torque of the nut, the first moment of friction is greater than the thread moment of friction. As a result, during the operation of the work apparatus when there is a relative movement between the blower wheel and the shaft, the blower wheel moves the nut along therewith. The nut retensions the blower wheel against the shaft. The second friction contact surface runs conically with respect to the rotational axis.
US10941782B2	Pump assembly A pump assembly (1) includes an impeller with a rotor axis (R). A pump housing (11) accommodates the impeller. A drive motor with a stator (14) and a rotor (51) drives the impeller (12). A rotor can (57) accommodates the rotor (51), and a stator housing (13) accommodating the stator (14). The rotor can (57) is mounted by a first coupling to the pump housing (11). The stator housing (13) is mounted by a second coupling to the pump housing (11). The first coupling is located closer to the rotor axis (R) than the second coupling.
US10941780B2	Slurry seal assembly A slurry seal assembly for use about a rotatable shaft between a process side and an atmosphere side is presented. The slurry seal assembly includes a sleeve, a rotatable seal ring, a stationary seal ring, a floating bushing seal assembly, and a plurality of slots. The sleeve is disposed about and rotatable with the shaft. The rotatable seal ring contacts and is rotatable with the sleeve. The stationary seal ring is arranged to form a sealing interface with the rotatable seal ring. The floating bushing seal assembly is disposed about the sleeve so that an inner annular surface along the floating bushing seal assembly is separated from an outer annular surface along the sleeve by a gap. The slots are disposed along the sleeve within the process side adjacent to the floating bushing seal assembly. The slurry seal assembly is applicable to devices whereby a fluid is movable between an inlet and an outlet.
US10941778B2	Motorized pump An electrical submersible pump (ESP) and method for pumping fluid from a wellbore. The ESP has a motorized pump with an external rotor motor topology. The motorized pump fits into casing in the wellbore. The motorized pump includes a motor having a motor stator and a motor rotor. The motor stator is at a radial center of the motorized pump. The motorized pump has a centrifugal pump radially surrounding the motor stator. The centrifugal pump includes an impeller and a diffuser.
US10941762B2	Piston limit sensing and software control for fluid application A liquid delivery system is presented. The liquid delivery system comprises a source of fluid coupled to an outlet. The liquid delivery system also includes a hydraulic cylinder coupled to the source of fluid. The hydraulic cylinder has a piston movable between a first limit position and a second limit position during an operational cycle. The hydraulic cylinder is configured to pressurize fluid received from the source of fluid, and deliver the pressurized fluid to the outlet. The liquid delivery system also comprises a rod connected to the piston and extending out of the cylinder. The liquid delivery system also comprises a sensor configured to sense a position of the rod to provide a signal indication of the piston with respect to the first position or the second position. An indication of the sensed position is provided to a controller, and the controller is configured to send a control signal to initiate a normal operation loop based on the sensed position.
US10941760B2	Pressure control gaskets for operating pump cassette membranes A pump cassette comprising an outer flexible membrane covering flowpaths, valve chambers and pump chambers of the cassette is designed to be actuated by a control gasket on a base unit arranged to move designated valve and pump portions of the cassette membrane. The gasket valve control or actuation region is at least partially bounded by a vacuum channel facing the outside of the gasket so that a constant vacuum can be applied between the gasket valve control or actuation region and the adjacent portion of the cassette membrane. An improved version of the vacuum channel comprises a flexible inner wall of the vacuum channel flexes or partially collapses away from the cassette valve seat, while still maintaining patency of the vacuum channel during the application of negative pressure on the gasket valve actuation region to open the cassette valve.
US10941726B2	Control device for internal combustion engine Torque fluctuations caused by misfire and abnormal combustion are prevented appropriately at the time of switching from SI to HCCI, and exhaust of NOx is restricted at the time of switching. Provided is a control apparatus for an internal combustion engine performing a plurality of combustion modes each having a different air-fuel ratio and compression end temperature in a cylinder 7 from each other. In the middle of switching from a first combustion mode to a second combustion mode, an intermediate combustion mode in which the compression end temperature is increased while keeping a different air-fuel ratio from the air-fuel ratio of the first combustion mode and the air-fuel ratio of the second combustion mode is performed. Accordingly, at the time of switching between an operation mode performing SI and an operation mode performing HCCI, a temperature in the cylinder 7 and an air-fuel ratio are controlled appropriately, torque fluctuations caused by misfire and abnormal combustion can be prevented appropriately, and exhaust of NOx can be restricted.
US10941721B2	Method and system for exhaust gas recirculation and heat recovery Methods and systems are provided for exhaust heat recovery and EGR cooling via a single heat exchanger. In one example, a method may include selecting a specific mode of operation of an engine exhaust system with the heat exchanger based on engine operating conditions and an estimated fuel efficacy factor. The fuel efficiency factor may take into account fuel efficacy benefits from EGR and exhaust heat recovery.
US10941719B2	Evaporative fuel treating apparatus An evaporative fuel treating apparatus includes: a canister; a vapor passage configured to cause a fuel tank to communicate with the canister; a closure valve including a valve disc arranged in the vapor passage and a stepping motor configured to open and close the valve disc; and a control device configured to control the closure valve. The control device is configured, in opening the valve disc to perform a pressure relief operation of the fuel tank, to: execute a flow rate estimation processing that calculates an estimated flow rate of gas passing through the closure valve, based on the absolute value of the amount of change of in-tank pressure of the fuel tank and a space volume inside the fuel tank; and execute a motor control processing that controls the number of steps of the stepping motor such that the estimated flow rate approaches a required flow rate.
US10941717B2	Throttle controller and throttle controlling method When a required pressure ratio RP* is less than or equal to a calculation switching pressure ratio RPwot, an engine control unit calculates, as a target opening degree TA, a throttle opening degree TA at which a throttle upstream-downstream pressure ratio RP is the required pressure ratio RP. When the required pressure ratio RP* exceeds the calculation switching pressure ratio RPwot, the engine control unit obtains a switching point opening degree TAwot, a switching point load factor KLwot and a maximum load factor KLmax, and calculates the target opening degree TA* as a value that has a linear relationship with the required load factor KL* between the switching point opening degree TAwot and the maximum opening degree TAmax.
US10941709B2	Gas turbine engine and cooling air configuration for turbine section thereof The gas turbine engine can have a gas path extending in serial flow communication across a compressor, a combustion chamber, and a turbine, the turbine having at least one multistage turbine section having a front toward the combustion chamber and a rear opposite the front, a plenum radially outward of the gas path, and a plurality of aperture sets interspaced from one another between the front and the rear, the aperture sets providing fluid flow communication from the plenum to the gas path, and a cooling air path having an outlet fluidly connected to the plenum at the rear of the plenum.
US10941704B2	Systems and methods for controlling engine operation to support external electric loads Methods and systems are provided for controlling operation of an engine of a vehicle to supply power to a power box that in turn supplies power to loads external to the vehicle. In one example, a method comprises, responsive to a request by an operator to operate an engine to power one or more loads external to the vehicle, monitoring an engine temperature and issuing an alert requesting the operator to take mitigating action to reduce the engine temperature when the engine temperature reaches a threshold temperature, and controlling a cooling fan as a function of whether or not the mitigating action is taken. In this way, fuel economy may be improved and power supply to power external loads may be optimized.
US10941703B2	Method and system for applying engine knock windows Methods and systems are disclosed for operating an engine that includes a knock control system that may determine contributions of individual noise sources to an engine background noise level. The contributions of the individual noise sources may be the basis for establishing the presence or absence of knock in one or more engine cylinders.
US10941701B2	Supercharging system and internal combustion engine The supercharging system and the internal combustion engine according to the present invention are provided with: a first supercharger (20); a second supercharger (30); an electric motor (23) connected to a shaft end of a first compressor (21); a generator (24) connected to a shaft end of a first turbine (22); a bypass exhaust pipe (L6) that allows exhaust air to bypass the first turbine (22); a cooler (51) that cools the generator (24); and a control device (50) that activates the cooler (51) when the generator (24) is driven by exhaust air that has driven the first turbine (22).
US10941697B2	Cooling system, motor vehicle and method for cooling same A cooling system (10) for a motor vehicle has an air system that fluidically connects a plurality of coolers (12) for supplying the coolers (12) with cooling air (16). An air fan is arranged fluidically in the air system for conveying the cooling air (16) to the coolers (12). Valves are arranged fluidically in the air system upstream of the coolers (12), for blocking the cooling air (16) conveyed to the respective cooler (12).
US10941686B2	Gaseous emissions treatment structure and method for induction heating An assembly for treating gaseous emissions has a substrate along which extend cells for the passage of emissions gas. Lengths of conducting wire are located in a set of the cells and an induction heating coil is used to generate a varying electromagnetic field, so as to inductively heat the lengths of conducting wire. The substrate body has a front for entry of flowing emissions gas to be treated into the substrate body and a back for exit of treated gaseous emissions gas. The lengths of conducting wire have projections extending from the front and/or back of the substrate body so that when inductively heated, the wire parts in the substrate body heat the surrounding substrate and the wire projections heat the flowing emissions gas directly.
US10941681B2	Oil pump and balancer unit of oil pump integrated type Oil pump and oil pump-integrated balancer device each have a pump housing formed by housing body 31 and cover member 32, pump shaft 33 having driven side helical gear 43 at which thrust force occurs when transmitting rotation force and rotating a rotor by the rotation force provided from drive side helical gear 13 that is engaged with driven side helical gear 43, first and second thrust receiving portions 47, 46 formed close to hole edges of bearing holes 32a, 31a of the cover member and the housing body, and first and second thrust limiting portions 49, 48 provided at the driven side helical gear and the pump shaft, contacting the thrust receiving portions from axis direction and limiting thrust movement of the pump shaft. With this configuration, oil pump and oil pump-integrated balancer device which are capable of securing stable support of the pump shaft are provided.
US10941680B2	Discrete variable valve lift engine systems and methods A method of providing a rocker arm set for a valvetrain includes providing a first rocker arm configured as a switching rocker arm for a first intake valve, and providing a second rocker arm configured as a fixed rocker arm for a second intake valve, the second rocker arm operating in a normal Otto cycle mode. The first rocker arm operates in a late intake valve closing (LIVC) mode where the first rocker arm is configured to close the first intake valve later than the second intake valve.
US10941677B2	Power plant and power output increase controlling method for power plant A power plant comprises a boiler, a turbine, a condenser, a feed water heater, a deaerator, a deaerator water level control valve, an extraction system which introduces the steam extracted from the turbine into the feed water heater, an extraction valve, an auxiliary steam introduction system which introduces auxiliary steam into the feed water heater, an auxiliary steam control valve and a control device. When a rapid load increase request is made, the control device controls, to orient the extraction valve in a closing direction, to maintain an opening of the deaerator water level control valve, and to orient the auxiliary steam control valve in an opening direction.
US10941657B2	Corrosion resistant yieldable bolt A mine bolt includes an elongated body having a first end and a second end positioned opposite the first end, with the elongated body having a first threaded section, a second threaded section, and a non-threaded section positioned between the first threaded section and the second threaded section. The non-threaded section is configured to yield under loading when the mine bolt is installed with grout in a bore hole.
US10941655B2	Downhole filtrate contamination monitoring with corrected resistivity or conductivity A method includes operating a downhole acquisition tool in a wellbore in a geological formation. The wellbore or the geological formation, or both, contains a fluid that includes a native reservoir fluid of the geological formation and a contaminant. The method also includes receiving a portion of the fluid into the downhole acquisition tool, obtaining a measured resistivity, a measured conductivity, or both of the portion of the fluid using the downhole acquisition tool, and using a processor of the downhole acquisition tool to obtain a temperature-corrected resistivity, a temperature-corrected conductivity, or both based on a downhole temperature of the portion of the fluid and the measured resistivity, the measured conductivity, or both.
US10941647B2	Matrix temperature production logging tool and use A matrix production logging tool for measuring the temperature of produced fluids in a wellbore is described. Accurate production allocation to the pathways between the oil/gas well and the reservoir provides required data for the economic optimization of the techniques and procedures used to complete future wells and optimize the existing well. The low maintenance tool provides precise uphole, downhole and inflow temperature measurements of produced fluids within the wellbore. These are obtained at a plurality of locations along the oil/gas well as the tool is withdrawn, thus providing a matrix of temperature measures along the length of the well. From the temperature traces, inflow as well as up and downhole temperature, can be determined, and mass contribution at each inlet determined. With this method, a production profile along the entire well can be determined as used in further well optimization efforts.
US10941645B2	Real-time monitoring of hydrocarbon productions A method includes obtaining a sample of a fluid from a subterranean zone while the fluid is being extracted from the zone. A chemical composition of the sample is measured. A temperature and a pressure of the subterranean zone are measured. The measured properties are associated with a time point. The measured properties are incorporated into a set of historical data. A chemical composition of a fluid to be extracted from the subterranean zone at a future time point is determined based on the set of historical data. A presence of a liquid phase in the fluid to be extracted from the subterranean zone at the future time point is determined. A flow rate of the fluid being extracted from the subterranean zone is adjusted in response to determining the presence of the liquid phase in the fluid to be extracted from the subterranean zone at the future time point.
US10941635B1	Optimization computer program and method An exemplary embodiment includes a system to determine which wells provide input volumes to gas processing plants using a mixed-integer programming (MIP) model. The system uses a balanced approach to model all plants and wells within a basin simultaneously. The model utilizes multiple publically available data sources including well production data, plant inlet data, and GIS data. The full implementation provides at minimum a tenfold time improvement over the previously used manual techniques while increasing overall model quality.
US10941634B2	Control line pressure controlled safety valve equalization A system for controlling fluid flow in a subterranean well includes a first valve, a control line fluidly coupled to the first valve, an equalizing line disposed externally to and separate from the first valve, and at least a second valve disposed in the equalizing line and in fluid communication with the control line. The first valve includes a body defining a lumen, and an upper portion, and a lower portion. The equalizing line is in fluid communication with the lumen between the upper portion and the lower portion of the body. The second valve equalizes a pressure between the upper and lower portions of the body.
US10941632B2	Autonomous annular pressure control assembly for perforation event A system and method of controlling a dynamic time-pressure profile associated with a perforation event that includes extending a perforation assembly within a casing string; firing a perforation gun of the perforation assembly; measuring, using a sensor of the perforation assembly, pressure within the casing string, wherein the measured pressure forms the dynamic time-pressure profile; identifying a first measured pressure within the dynamic time-pressure profile; identifying, using a controller of the perforation assembly, a first difference between the first measured pressure and a first reference pressure; and adjusting, using a first pressure generator of the perforation assembly, the pressure in response to the first difference to control the dynamic time-pressure profile; wherein the sensor, the controller, and the first pressure generator provide a feedback control loop.
US10941623B2	Apparatus and method for cleaning rock debris when deep-water surface drilling is done The present disclosure provides an apparatus and method for cleaning rock debris when deep-water surface drilling is done. The apparatus for cleaning rock debris when deep-water surface drilling is done comprises: an open barrel having an open through groove which is axially provided; a plurality of debris cleaning mechanisms connected to the open barrel at an interval in a circumferential direction of the open barrel, wherein each of the debris cleaning mechanisms comprises: a fixed block connected to an outer wall of the open barrel; a debris cleaning leg having one end rotatably connected to the fixed block, and the other end provided with a debris cleaning impeller; and a pull rod having one end connected to the outer wall of the open barrel above the fixed block, and the other end movably connected to the debris cleaning leg. The present disclosure not only cleans a large amount of rock debris accumulated around the seabed surface conduit while drilling is done in the deep-water surface drilling process, but also achieves the purpose of continuous working in the deep-water surface drilling process, without the need of frequent tripping in and out in midway to adjust the position of the apparatus for cleaning rock debris when deep-water surface drilling is done.

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